Marriott International and the attorney general’s office reached a settlement agreement on Thursday that will provide more than 500 previously laid-off workers with more than $2.9 million in undelivered severance pay.
Management at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square promised non-unionized employees the same or better benefits as unionized hotel workers but failed to keep its word when 800 were fired in March 2021, according to the attorney general’s office. The office found that non-unionized former employees received less severance pay than those who were members of the union.
“Marriott fired hundreds of employees last year due to the pandemic and, to add insult to injury, deprived
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