Former Foxtrot, Dom’s employees rally for severance pay after store closures

Alonzo Small
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CHICAGO — Former Foxtrot and Dom’s Markets employees rallied outside the company’s commissary in Pilsen on Friday to protest the abrupt closure of stores.

After the company’s sudden shutdown on Tuesday, ex-workers seek 60 days’ pay. Many of the employees, who were Hispanic and spoke English as a second language, received only two hours’ notice.

Workers’ rights representatives say that layoffs violate federal and state labor laws.

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“Tuesday at noon everyone was out of a job. And so, we are here today to give a voice to these workers, to inform the community about what is going on, and to inspire others who were affected by this and have yet to come forward to join the group, and also to let the company know that the workers are learning about their rights and they will not be outboxed. They are not giving up and they are here to ask what is owed to them,” Jose Uribe with Arise Chicago said.

Illinois law requires employers with 75 or more full-time workers to give employees and state and local officials 60 days advance notice of a plant closing or mass layoff.

The protest comes days after Foxtrot and Dom’s former employees filed a class action lawsuit, alleging that they received no notice that they were losing their jobs.

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The lawsuit claims that Foxtrot and Dom’s Market’s abrupt closure without notice violated the rights of ex-workers under the WARN Act.

“We have to send the message that this is not OK,” Syed Hussain, who filed the class action lawsuit in federal court, told WGN News on Wednesday. “The way they handled it is not OK, and people are upset and distraught, and hopefully we can do something for them.”

The closure, which went into effect on Tuesday, April 23, came months after the grocery retailers merged. The closure affects two Dom’s stores and 33 Foxtrots across the Chicago, Austin, Dallas, and DC areas.

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