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BURLINGTON â Former employees of Koffee Kup Bakery, including 91 in Brattleboro, will receive their paid-off-time balances after a state judge ruled in their favor Wednesday afternoon.
According to court documents, the employees are owed $812,000 in paid time off, as well as $16,000 in interest on that amount.
On April 26, about 500 employees at Koffee Kup in Burlington, Vermont Bread in Brattleboro and Superior Baking in North Grosvenor Dale, Conn., arrived to work to discover they no longer had jobs.
Employees received their final paychecks, but money deposited along with those checks for paid-time-off balances was rescinded, which created financial problems for many employees.
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BURLINGTON â Former employees of Koffee Kup Bakery, including 91 in Brattleboro, will receive their paid-off-time balances after a state judge ruled in their favor Wednesday afternoon.
According to court documents, the employees are owed $812,000 in paid time off, as well as $16,000 in interest on that amount.
On April 26, about 500 employees at Koffee Kup in Burlington, Vermont Bread in Brattleboro and Superior Baking in North Grosvenor Dale, Conn., arrived to work to discover they no longer had jobs.
Employees received their final paychecks, but money deposited along with those checks for paid-time-off balances was rescinded, which created financial problems for many employees.
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BURLINGTON â Former employees of Koffee Kup and Vermont Bread Company will have to wait at least another week before they know when they will receive their paid-time-off balances. During a court hearing on Tuesday morning, Judge Samuel Hoar was considering a motion to pay the nearly $800,000 in time off balances out of money being held by the receiver of the closed bakeryâs assets.
âWeâre still trying to figure out whoâs going to carve out the bird,â said Hoar. âWho gets a leg and who gets a wing.â
On April 26, just three weeks after American Industrial Acquisition Corporation obtained a majority interest in Koffee Kup, three bakeries were shuttered without notice. In addition to Koffee Kupâs bakery in Burlington, Vermont Bread Company in Brattleboro and Superior Bakery in North Grosvenor Dale, Conn., were closed, pushing nearly 500 employees out of work. While the employees received