Hundreds of part-time Market Basket employees will be without a job come Monday as store managers scramble to keep up with the demands of the embattled grocery chain's leadership, and while the company promises there will be no layoffs, those on the front lines are telling a different story.
"They are just trying to cover themselves here. The fact of the matter is that we can't schedule these people to work, and on Monday they won't have any more shifts," said Glenn Connors, who manages the Brockton Market Basket. "We had to tell these people that they can't come back to work next week. My employees are horrified."
Store managers were notified by Market Basket co-CEO Felicia Thornton last Friday that they "need to schedule staff levels necessary to serve your current customer base and maintain store conditions," according to an email obtained by the Herald.
In the wake of the ongoing protests to reinstate fired CEO Arthur T. Demoulas, Market Basket's shelves have been nearly empty, and its customers have gone elsewhere.
With plummeting revenues, store managers are forced to make cuts, and the only option is to part ways with hundreds of part-time employees.
"It's almost like they're trying to set us up," said Scott Ivers, manager of a store in Lowell. "They told me I had to make payroll and keep the store going. If I had to do the math and make payroll, I'd have to lay everyone off. This is the only way we can physically do this and even come close."
Market Basket, meanwhile, maintains managers are not being asked to lay anyone off.
"Store directors were not instructed to lay off associates, but to adjust hours to meet current demand," the company said in a statement. "It is our hope that we will be back to normal business levels in the not too distant future and all associates will be back to a full schedule."
According to the statement, Thornton also told all store managers "to let their associates know that they are not laid off."
Semantics didn't matter to Matt Forrest, 21, a grocery clerk who works summers at a Lowell Market Basket to help pay his way through college.
"It's really stressful for me because I'm a student and I have to buy books and get ready for school. I'm just trying to get by," he said. "I've been working in this store for a while, and now I can't come in on Monday. This really is terrible."
Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday set up a hotline for Market Basket employees to call after her office received "more than 100 calls over the last 24 hours," according to a statement. Coakley and New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster sent a letter to Market Basket brass to remind them of the laws regarding worker termination.
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