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Pan Pacific Wrongful Termination Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: Terminated workers of the luxury Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver lodged a class action lawsuit at their former employer.
- Why: Workers claim Pan Pacific wrongfully terminated 100 of its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was certified in B.C. Supreme Court.
The luxury Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver has been accused of wrongfully terminating 100 employees during the pandemic in a class action lawsuit recently given the go-ahead by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
A class of former workers claim Pan Pacific misled them about their hours and wrongfully terminated them without notice or cause when the hotel faced a decline in business during the pandemic, the Vancouver Sun reports.
Pan Pacific also failed to provide terminated employees with proper severance pay after their years of service worked for the hotel, workers say.
Workers allege that hotel management hatched a secret plan at the early stages of the pandemic to decrease its staff from 450 employees to 80, the Sun reports.
Instead of being honest with employees about its intentions, however, workers claim Pan Pacific chose to provide them with false hope about their employment status, and that they could be rehired.
Pan Pacific Terminated Employees To Decrease Liability, Workers Say
Workers claim Pan Pacific ultimately began terminating employees during the early stages of spring 2020 to decrease its liability for providing severance or notice as required by the Employee Standards Act, the Vancouver Sun reports.
Plaintiff Romuel Escobar claims he received only eight weeks worth of pay after being terminated from Pan Pacific in August 2020 despite working for the hotel for almost 25 years.
The central issue of the class action lawsuit is whether Pan Pacific changed its workers’ contracts by eliminating their hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic and if they intentionally misled them about their employment statuses, according to the Sun.
Workers will also seek to prove that Pan Pacific acted in a “malicious,” “high-handed” and “reprehensible” manner that would subsequently warrant punitive damages.
The plaintiffs are represented by Unite Here Local 40.
A similar class action lawsuit was filed against Great Canadian Gaming in June by former casino workers who claim they were wrongfully terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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