Pizza Hut offers to rehire manager
who refused to open on holiday
By Lisa Maria Garza (Reuters)
A store manager of a Pizza Hut
franchise in Indiana
is mulling over a rehire offer from the worldwide pizza chain after he was
fired for refusing to open the restaurant on Thanksgiving Day.
Tony Rohr, 28, said he was told to
write a letter of resignation after deciding to give his employees at the Elkhart, Indiana,
store the holiday off. He told South
Bend, Indiana,
station WSBT-TV that he instead wrote a letter explaining why the store, part
of Yum Brands Inc, should be closed,
and then he was fired.
Pizza Hut's corporate office said
in a statement it "strongly recommended that the local franchisee
reinstate the store manager, and they have agreed." Although the choice to
open on a holiday is made at the local level, most U.S. franchise locations are closed
on Thanksgiving, it said.
As Rohr prepared to celebrate
Thanksgiving with his family on Thursday, he told CNN he had not decided how to
respond to the rehire offer. "That's something I can't decide right
away," he said. "I'll start looking into stuff tomorrow."
A call by Reuters to the store
formerly managed by Rohr was answered with a recorded message saying: "We
are closed for the holiday." With U.S. retailers offering "Black
Friday" discount deals before Thanksgiving, critics circulated online
petitions, and a handful of franchise owners said they had defied corporate
orders by keeping their stores closed for the holiday.
"It bothers me that this
country is allowing them to dictate time away from our families," Holly
Cassiano, who refused to open her Sears franchise in Plymouth, New Hampshire,
told CNN.
Among other retailers, grocer
Whole Foods Market Inc. said its Thanksgiving work shifts were voluntary and
that it would compensate staff with time-and-a-half pay. Discount chain Kmart,
a Sears unit, said it had offered its holiday workers the same arrangement.
Yum Brands Inc.
Kenneth G. Langone
was a director at YUM! Brands, Inc.,
is a trustee at the Harlem Children's
Zone, a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a trustee at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank).
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Zone, and is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
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Hood Foundation, and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
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Fore is a trustee at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (think tank), a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
member of the Belizean Grove.
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Henry A. Kissinger is a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank), a member of the Bohemian
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was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
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Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
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Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
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