The City of Denver will not be filing legal charges against Clayton Holdings, LLC after the infamous "Lunch Scandal"
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In a press conference held by local officials early yesterday morning, legal authorities in the District Attorney’s office indicated that the city will not be filing suit against the local branch of the loan agency company Clayton Holdings, LLC.
The discussed lawsuit was in regards to what has become known as the “Lunch Scandal” by locals after 11 previous employees of Clayton were let go by the company for taking extended lunch breaks on days that managers were absent. Rumors that the city of Denver would be filing suit against Clayton came about after some of the fired employees expressed concerns that they were let go unfairly. The fired employees were ultimately claiming that other employees took similar lunch breaks without punishment.
The controversial incident occurred after 17 analysts from the Surveillance Department of Clayton went out for a lunch at the local restaurant Linger on August 21, 2017. The lunch trip took the employees a total of 57 minutes, which was 27 minutes longer than they are regularly allowed for lunch. As managers at Clayton have received many complaints from other employees in the Clayton office that the employees indulged in longer lunch breaks when managers were not present, the managers were paying attention to time spent on this lunch break.
The events on that Monday led to 11 employees being fired (some pictured below), including John Dean, Grade Dea, Aries Wilkerson, Michelle Long, Kristi Leung, Ian Stewart, Caleb Nazar, Ly Nyguyen, Hamza Wells, Duncan Raab, and Olof Cederhold-Triana. The controversy did not necessarily revolve around the 11 fired employees, but more so the 6 employees who were not let go as a result of the extended lunch: Cliff Brown, Jeff Holwell, Lindsay Thompson, Lalem Tafari, and Sean Moser. The fired employees were ultimately claiming that other employees took similar lunch breaks without punishment, which would result in the unfair termination of the fired employees.
The press secretary for the Human Resource department at Clayton released a statement on Clayton’s behalf explaining that as employees gain tenure, they are given more time throughout each work day for breaks, including lunch. As the average tenure of the employees let go was almost a year younger than the average tenure for the employees that were not let go who also attended the extended lunch that resulted in the firing of 11 employees.
Despite the large amount of public criticism of the “Lunch Scandal” at Clayton Holdings, LLC, it appears as if the City of Denver did not find sufficient evidence to warrant legal charges.
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