@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 6 months agoSportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new namewisconsinexaminer.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1236arrow-down1external-linkSportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new namewisconsinexaminer.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareTransporter Room 3linkfedilink11•6 months agoSo you shut down your business, even if the courts decide “technically correct” on rehiring, your old business is still on the hook for back wages. “shutting down” doesn’t magically absolve you of financial obligations.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months agoHate to break it to you, but it often does. Something might be able to be done in this case becsuse it was so blatant.
minus-squareZuberi 👀linkfedilink3•6 months agoFor this guy using LLCs it definitely won’t. But if somebody like Walmart / J&J do it with a subsidiary they guaranteed get away with it.
So you shut down your business, even if the courts decide “technically correct” on rehiring, your old business is still on the hook for back wages.
“shutting down” doesn’t magically absolve you of financial obligations.
Hate to break it to you, but it often does. Something might be able to be done in this case becsuse it was so blatant.
For this guy using LLCs it definitely won’t.
But if somebody like Walmart / J&J do it with a subsidiary they guaranteed get away with it.