The decision puts approximately 18,000 people out of work, including those who had been employed at the franchise located at Joplin's Northpark Mall.
Firing the employees whose benefits ended March 31 means they cannot continue to receive health insurance through COBRA.
The company left the following message on its website and on Twitter when it closed its restaurants in March.
TO OUR LOYAL GUESTS & OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
From the day Logan’s Roadhouse was founded, taking care of our guests and employees has been our top priority. Properly balancing the needs of so many through this COVID-19 crisis has been incredibly challenging for us all. After many long days and nights, we’ve made the difficult decision to temporarily close all corporate restaurants as of March 18, 2020 until further notice.
It’s hard, and it’s heartbreaking for the thousands of our heroes, our team members. Social distancing is something we’re not used to doing, but social gatherings on the other hand, game on! Once this is all over, we’d love to invite y’all to kick back at our house, have an incredible hand-cut steak, an ice-cold beer, and enjoy the fellowship of our community.
Americans always find a way to persevere, and as the Real American Roadhouse, we will too. We are committed to our mission to be the best everyday authentic roadhouse – serving quality steaks, a kickin' bar and an upbeat dining experience.
We will keep you updated on our status at LogansRoadhouse.com, all social channels, and our email club.
Please take care of one another, the country needs it more than ever.
See you soon.
Whether Logan's Roadhouse ever reopens is up in the air. The company that owns the restaurant chain, CraftWorks Holdings, Inc, filed for bankruptcy March 3 and U. S. Bankruptcy Court document indicated a major lender had pulled out of an agreement with the company.
6 comments:
It's almost like health insurance shouldn't be tied to employment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Trump and Republicans tell us they have a plan to have a health care plan.
That's what they have been telling us they have working on since before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed in 2010.
Just keep voting for them and their secret plans will be revealed.
Soon.
This is completely false. This article is misleading. First of all, furloughed employees typically still maintain their health benefits - they just have to pay their portion out-of-pocket. Even if the company cut off their benefits, they would be mandated to offer COBRA. COBRA can last 18 months - 3 years. Terminating them would not result in the employees to be ineligible for COBRA. That's not my opinion - that's the law.
Also, I seriously doubt that the kitchen staff, wait staff, etc had benefits through the company. Most staff are not full time and benefit-eligible. I do not personally know about Logan's, but this is typical for most restaurants.
For those that commented before even so much as looking up COBRA on Google - STOP MAKING EVERYTHING POLITICAL. It's completely irrelevant and honestly, makes you look like you are just spitting words out of your mouths.
**rant over**
8:04AM = FAKE NEWS!
WRONG WRONG WRONG!
Talk about hoist on own petard.
But they keep on tRUMPING and claiming it isn't political at the same time.
smh
When it comes to the republican naysayers and republican defenders here at the Turner Report there’s never any reason not to spout factually inaccurate nonsense!
Let's start off with the observation that if 8:04 actually understood what COBRA allows employees to do under certain circumstances then perhaps they would realize how wrong their assertions above are. Like they say on the internet...SADLY NO!
POSTER AT 8:04 AM CLAIMS: For those that commented before even so much as looking up COBRA on Google
Did 8:04 AM look up COBRA on Google?????
Here is how COBRA works in real life: The employee exercising their option to retain health insurance under COBRA pays both the employees share AND the employers share of the health benefit premiums to allow the employee (or former employee) to continue coverage under the employer's existing plan for the specified time.
KEY WORDS: EMPLOYER'S EXISTING PLAN
In the case of Logan's Roadhouse the parent company reportedly filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and apparently notified the employees that their jobs were terminated along with the Logan's Roadhouse health plans.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE IS NO COBRA COVERAGE FOR AVAILABLE FOR FORMER LOGAN'S ROADHOUSE EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THE LOGAN'S ROADHOUSE HEALTH PLANS HAVE REPORTEDLY BEEN TERMINATED.
As a matter of fact, I read a story in the Wall Street Journal recently which supplied those very same facts concerning the Logan's Roadhouse bankruptcy filing, I think this is the appropriate link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-restaurant-operator-craftworks-fires-nearly-all-its-18-000-workers-11585702531
My google also found another article online in an online restaurant business publication with the same facts: https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/logans-parent-fires-its-furloughed-employees
That article begins with:
The parent of Logan’s Roadhouse and Old Chicago has notified its furloughed employees that they have all been terminated, with healthcare benefits ended as of March 31.
Later in that article:
Casual-dining veteran Marc Buehler is now CEO, according to an email forwarded to Restaurant Business by employees.
The communication explains that health-insurance coverage was terminated, leaving the discharged employees without access to COBRA, the federal program that extends coverage for a short time to workers who lose their private insurance.
The employees are advised to check their state’s healthcare marketplace to shop for coverage.
Check their healthcare marketplace to shop for coverage?
THAT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THE MUCH MALIGNED BY REPUBLICANS (and many wingnuts) state healthcare marketplaces which were established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (aka OBAMACARE).
THE FORMER LOGAN'S STEAKHOUSE EMPLOYEES SHOULD SEE IF THEY CAN BUY COVERAGE UNDER THE ACA.!
That is the very same law Republicans have been having the vapors about and trying to do in since before it was even passed and signed into law!
But that there will be all ok.
I keep getting told that there is nothing political about any of that, that doing away with OBAMACARE while not doing anything about covering uninsured Americans, is the way for Republicans to cut taxes and just keep adding to America's freedoms and Making America Great Again and whatnot.
It seems like to me maybe the United States should join most of the rest of the industrialized world and not tie health care to employment.
BUT REPUBLICANS KEEP SAYING THEY KNOW BETTER!
Just like when the president tells the nation (he continues to brag about his yooge ratings by the way!) that the corona virus is hard to fight because of antibiotic resistance.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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