Local Backyard Burgers in the metro area remain closed

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A drive-thru that may usually be lined up with automobiles ready to put an order now stays empty after closing with none clarification from house owners.

Staff say they want solutions.

“A telephone name isn’t a technique to inform those who they don’t have a job,” stated Jaemal Thompson.

That telephone name coming Wednesday morning. Based on staff, the district supervisor instructed all shops to finish operations and launch all staff from their duties instantly.

“So I referred to as again and requested him if this was a joke. He stated, ‘No, it’s critical.’ I stated, ‘So what would you like us to do?’ He stated to ‘inform the workers to go away and prospects to go away and locked the doorways and go dwelling. You don’t have a job anymore.’”

Thompson is the overall supervisor on the Flowood Yard Burgers. He tells 3 On Your Aspect that he has not heard again from anybody within the company workplace in Nashville about why they’re closing.

He additionally discovered that their well being advantages are canceled.

“I went to the dentist, they usually stated it wasn’t no protection,” Thompson stated. “Once I spoke with one of many leaders, she stated that the insurance coverage comes out of our wage verify, however there’s no protection. The place is the cash going to?”

Within the meantime, Thompson and his staff are nonetheless ready to be paid.

“I been getting backlash being that I don’t have solutions for them as a result of I’m in the identical boat. They’re calling for his or her checks. Numerous them didn’t get their checks in the present day. I don’t have solutions. At the least give us our pay,” stated Thompson. “That is what we labored for, and why are we placing in for advantages that we are able to’t even use.”

3 On Your Aspect tried calling the corporate to get a remark or assertion concerning the retailer closures however didn’t get a response.

For now, the one Yard Burgers location that is still open is the one in Madison.

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