{"id":27624,"date":"2012-11-05T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27624"},"modified":"2012-11-05T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:44:34","slug":"legal-system-fails-city-market-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/legal-system-fails-city-market-employees","title":{"rendered":"Legal System Fails City Market Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20102\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20102\" title=\"city-market\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/city-market.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/city-market.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/city-market-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former employees of the now-defunct City Market supermarket chain have \u201clost faith\u201d in the legal system, a spokesman for the group said, telling Tribune Business that 80 per cent had still \u201cnot received a dime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Finlayson, principal of City Markets\u2019 78 per cent majority shareholder, Trans-Island Traders, told The Tribune on Wednesday that City Markets workers have yet to receive their severance pay and benefits because the $3.5 million sale of the former supermarket chain\u2019s leasehold interests has still to formally conclude.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Tribune Business was told that in negotiations with the employees and their attorneys, Mr Finlayson had not explicitly committed to use the sale proceeds to pay them what they were due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty per cent of the former employees of the defunct City Market supermarket chain are still waiting for their severance pay and benefits and have now lost faith in the Bahamas legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[210,49],"class_list":["post-27624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-employees","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}