Illinois ‘Burger King’ Employees Owed $460K After Not Getting Paid For Sick Leave

Chicago workers are supposed to earn one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours they work under the city’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, which went into effect July 1, 2017. Unfortunately, But Tri City foods didn’t provide that paid sick leave to 2,473 workers at 40 Burger King locations it runs from July 2017 through November 2020, according to a Mayor’s Office news release.

What is not confirmed is whether or not the employees got sick from eating Burger King…but we know they did.

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