Chipotle agrees to pay $240K to employees of shuttered Maine store
The payout is part of a settlement for illegally closing the restaurant.
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The payout is part of a settlement for illegally closing the restaurant.
Chipotle also will give preferential hiring to the workers at Maine stores and post signs at 40 stores stating it won't discriminate based on union support.
The Maine-AFL-CIO union announced the news of the settlement with August workers Monday morning
Employees that formerly worked at Chipotle's Augusta, Maine, location before it was closed over the summer will get nearly a quarter of a million dollars in back pay.
The workers claimed the company closed the Augusta store permanently and blacklisted them from job postings in retaliation to their attempts to unionize.