Chicago Update

Hotel broke labor laws

July 8, 2010

LaMar Johnson has been unemployed for 13 months since being laid off from his job as a cook at the Blackstone Hotel -- a move he believed violated federal labor laws. But Johnson should be back to work shortly now that a judge has ruled the owners of the downtown Michigan Avenue hotel did indeed break labor laws and ordered them to reinstate Johnson and 13 other laid-off workers. The hotel also was ordered to restore health-care benefits it unilaterally cut last year.

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