Employee checks bounce after a company in Georgia shuts down as the owner faced an eviction lawsuit months prior.
After a popular trampoline park located in Gwinnett County, Georgia shut down, former employees claim that their final paychecks bounced as the owner faced eviction proceedings.
This occurred after a lawsuit was filed against the owner several months earlier.
The location on Scenic Highway near the city of Snellville unexpectedly closed its doors in early August, surprising the mostly teenage employees who worked there.
One 15-year-old employee, Morgan Moore, who had taken a summer job at the Scenic Highway location, expressed their surprise, saying “For my very first job, I didn’t expect it” in reference to the sudden closure.
When Morgan Moore deposited her final paycheck from the Urban Air Adventure Park on August 13th, her mother Tiesha Ford reported that the check bounced a few days later.
Ford told Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson that “It wasn’t just my kid. Almost every child’s check bounced. It’s like they just didn’t care.”
WSBTV reports that another former employee, Marcella Edwards, stated that her 16-year-old daughter who had worked at the Urban Air location since January also had her final paycheck bounce.
Edwards said her daughter “was really, really hurt” by this, as she had been working the entire summer to save up money for back-to-school shopping.
According to court records, the property owner of the shopping center where the Urban Air Adventure Park was located, Scenic Capital LLC, sued the park’s owner, White, and two of his family members back in June.
The lawsuit claimed that White had defaulted on the commercial lease for the property.
Documents show that White was facing eviction prior to the business shutting down in early August.
Parents of the affected former employees say they have not been given any explanations or assurances that their children will be paid the wages they earned.
Tiesha Ford, the mother of one employee, stated that the bounced paycheck led to overdraft fees for her daughter’s bank account.
Ford believes the owner “needs to compensate the children, not only for the funds that they worked for but also for the delinquent bounces that occurred.”
A spokesperson for Urban Air stated that the location was individually owned and operated.
Court documents indicate the property owner’s attorneys struggled to reach White after the lawsuit was filed.
The parents say there is no excuse for their children not being paid, with Marcella Edwards stating “With these checks bouncing, that is definitely unacceptable.”
A handwritten “closed” sign on the door of the location offers “apologies for the inconvenience.”
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A beloved grocery chain now confirms unexpected closures across the Northeast taking place by the end of the year.
Grocery chain Stop & Shop has announced that a total of 32 underperforming locations will shutter in the U.S.
The company said the select stores across the Northeast will be closed before the end of the year.
Stores in New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island will close by November 2.
In May, the company announced the coming store closures.
“Stop & Shop has evaluated its overall store portfolio and made the difficult decision to close underperforming stores to create a healthy base for the future growth of our brand,” company president Gordon Reid said, per a July 12 press release.
The company’s president added that the closures were essential “to create a healthy base for the future growth of our brand.”
Fortunately, employees will be offered other positions within the company, according to a press release.
The grocery outlet first opened in 2014 and currently has around 400 stores and 60,000 employees, per Fox affiliate KRLD.
Stop & Shop is owned by Ahold Delhaize which also owns Food Lion, Giant Food, and Hannaford.
Which grocery stores are closing?
In New Jersey, 10 locations will close, while only seven will close in New York.
Rhode Island will see two closures and Massachusetts, the home of the first location, will be closing eight.
Five stores will also be closing in Connecticut.
As other chains such as Walmart and Amazon join the grocery business, it has pushed traditional grocery stores out of view, reports The-Sun.
Stop & Shop hopes the closure of underperforming stores will create “future growth” for the company.
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