Hobby Lobby is closing all stores and furloughing 'nearly all' employees (without pay)
Source: Business Insider
After quietly reopening stores across the country in defiance of coronavirus-related state lockdown orders, Hobby Lobby is closing all stores nationally and furloughing employees.
In a statement posted on the company website on Friday afternoon, Hobby Lobby announced it would furlough "nearly all store employees" and would be "ending emergency leave pay and suspending use of company provided paid time off benefits and vacation."
"As the country continues efforts to manage and mitigate the devastating health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 virus, Hobby Lobby will, after careful consideration, close the remainder of its stores, and furlough nearly all store employees and a large portion of corporate and distribution employees, effective Friday, April 3rd, at 8:00 p.m.," Hobby Lobby posted on its website. "The stores will remain closed until further notice."
According to two employees, each speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution but whose employment status and identities were confirmed by Business Insider, managers at their stores called teams into a meeting to deliver the news on Friday afternoon. During the meetings, they were told the furlough would impact all workers below management level and would be expected to run through at least May 1.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/hobby-lobby-closing-stores-furlough-nearly-all-employees-without-pay-2020-4?amp
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Hobby Lobby is closing all stores and furloughing 'nearly all' employees after it defied stay-at-home orders by quietly reopening locations around the nation
pnwest
(3,266 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,834 posts)Fuck that company. Ive despised them for years, hate them now. Dollars to crucifixes those charlatans will be at the front of line for that bailout money though! I repeatFUCK those clowns.
Rebl2
(13,571 posts)in years because of owners right wing religious views and love of trump.
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)God is clearly not in control.
So, they are going to take it out on their employees.
"The line our manager gave us was, 'The employees got what the employees wanted; the stores were closed,'" the Indiana employee said in an interview shortly after he learned of the furlough. "My question was, 'Did God tell them they needed to close the stores and not pay us?'"
GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)not fooled
(5,803 posts)why didn't God tell them the artifacts were fakes?????
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)furlough means you stay on the company's roll as an employee. But it still allows you to collect unemployment.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)If they can't make a buck while playing 'the defiant persecuted', then they have no other choice but to kick their servants into the ditch to die! IT'S IN REVELATIONS, PEOPLE!!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,220 posts)The least he could do is pay employees for their accrued vacation and sick leave.
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)If employees are furloughed, will Hobby Lobby. get a bunch of money? I almost bet they will!!
Igel
(35,362 posts)pass-through money, they could pay their employees.
That supposedly has mechanisms in place to prevent skimming. Might even require a subsidy by businesses in the form of the employer portion of the payroll taxes.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)mitch96
(13,926 posts)aka, I got mine...fuck you..
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howardmappel
(80 posts)You know, billionaires didn't become billionaires by being generous, or even fair, to the little people. Besides, I'm sure the Greens (Hobby Lobby owners) prayed and decided this is what Jae ey sus would do.
Lonestarblue
(10,097 posts)After the US attack, museums were raided and Green bought thousands of items. Anyone who bought something suddenly found in Iraq would have known they were stolen. He is just as corrupt as every other Republican. I hope he loses all his millions, no doubt gained at other peoples expense.
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)Christianity and the Bible honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and fraud by the Hobby Lobby Museum..
Maeve
(42,294 posts)Seems right and proper....
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MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:16)
Oh, and "benefits?" Don't forget, H-L fought to not have to "pay for abortions" because of their "religious beliefs."
msongs
(67,459 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Which is how you know.
jeffreyi
(1,945 posts)UpInArms
(51,285 posts)Nearly 4,000 ill-gotten artifacts will be returned to Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says. The ancient objects were bought by Hobby Lobby, a national chain of arts and crafts stores, then smuggled into the United States in violation of federal law.
The Oklahoma-based chain of retail stores bought more than 5,500 objects from dealers in the United Arab Emirates and Israel in 2010, said the Department of Justice in a July 2017 document. The purchase was made months after the company was advised by an expert to use caution.
An "expert on cultural property law" had warned Hobby Lobby that artifacts from Iraq, including cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals, could be stolen from archaeological sites. The expert also told the company to search its collections for objects of Iraqi origin and make sure that those materials were properly identified. But despite that warning Hobby Lobby arranged to purchase thousands of antiquities including cuneiform tablets and bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals for $1.6 million.
More at
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/01/607582135/hobby-lobbys-smuggled-artifacts-will-be-returned-to-iraq
MarcA
(2,195 posts)they like to put on a phony religious show. Support businesses and co-ops that are humane.
Drum
(9,199 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)nilram
(2,894 posts)My very Christian sister said, in our family chat, about her local area:
They are just starting to look at the homeless.
In my social worker opinion - they should do nothing, let the virus loose then deal with housing the survivors.
Nobody responded but I thought about replying:
Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.
Igel
(35,362 posts)use it mostly as a cudgel.
Somebody steals their car, they object. Strenuously.
Not all. Mostly.
nilram
(2,894 posts)so, yeah, I didnt send it. Im just saddened by her lack of compassion. So I try to have compassion for her as well.
aeromanKC
(3,328 posts)And of course management will get some of that five hundred billion that Mnuchin will distribute.
Initech
(100,107 posts)We'll need the space. And the shelves will be good for housing medical equipment.
madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)These charlatans and religious frauds have ruined the country.
nilram
(2,894 posts)Yeah, its legal in a lot of states, but is it kind? Is it moral? Is it ethical? I hope the people in his markets remember the extreme middle finger that this is.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,600 posts)Apparently people who work for a couple who profess to be "born-again."
area51
(11,925 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)kacekwl
(7,022 posts)assholes.