Covid-19 OSHA Complaint, Hooters, 1650 S US Highway 41 Suite A, SCHERERVILLE, IN, 46375, USA
3 years ago
As of 6/18/2020 I was notified through another coworker that two girls I had been working closely with since the reopening of our store tested positive for COVID19. I was immediately alarmed and not only scheduled an appointment for myself to get tested but started digging a
little bit deeper into the matter. I started reaching out to these girls to try to find out why neither of them had let us know that they had tested positive to find out that management had told them to not tell any of the other employees what was going on within the store. Since this information has been obtained several of my coworkers that had been having mild symptoms (in which they informed the managers of and were told that they were "ok") have went and gotten tested themselves. We all promised each other that we would share our results because it had been made apparent that management was failing to inform us of this very important (and life threatening) information. As of yesterday 6-21 four more current employees have tested positive putting us at 6 total which doesn't even include the results that haven't come back yet. When the store reopened we were told that if we were offered our jobs back and failed to actually come back that we would be cut from our unemployment and "blacklisted" from the company, leaving us with no job. All of us hesitantly returned to work. Within two weeks temperatures stopped being taken, kitchen staff was being seen without masks and like previously stated if a girl came forward with any sort of symptom even if it were just mild it was dismissed as allergies or anything other than a COVID19 related symptom. One of my coworkers even worked for seven full days with these symptoms before she went and got tested. I feel as if the information being withheld is unfair and now we are all afraid. We are afraid for our health and afraid to even talk to management in regards to the matter because we know we are going to be reprimanded or talked down to for it. Employees have been dropping like flies because they are sick so that is leaving remaining staff to work crazy amounts of over time. One of the girls posted in our work related group chat that one of the managers told her yesterday that corporate will NEVER allow our store to close because our specific location is bringing in too much money. My coworkers are in danger, our customers are in danger and this is absolutely terrifying. We need help.
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-06-22
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-06-22
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