Economics
Rehired Workers Get Fired Again When States Pause Reopening
- Nightclubs, gyms lament sending employees home a second time
- Restaurateur: ‘I don’t know why one brush paints everyone’
A server wearing a protective mask and gloves carries drinks at a restaurant in Montclair, New Jersey, on June 15.
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Ordered by the governor’s office to quickly shutter his five sprawling Arizona workout clubs late Monday, Bahram Akradi was fuming. Yes, Covid-19 cases were surging in the state but, he said, his employees at Life Time fitness were on top of it.
On Wednesday, the founder of the Minnesota-based fitness giant had joined the ranks of business owners defying orders to stay closed. “It is the last thing I want, to go against the desires or wishes of the governor,” said Akradi, who has filed an administrative challenge to the order. “But they have literally left us with no choice.”