The restaurant you used to work for received a PPP loan and wants you back — now what?
As every city and state wrestles independently with its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how to safely reopen society and the economy, restaurants and bars are at the bleeding edge of the conversation — as are the employees who must navigate whether or not they will return to work.have been laid off, furloughed, or otherwise unemployed since the onset of COVID-19, and their return to work is complicated by the Paycheck Protection Program loans that have been disbursed over the past month.
Hospitality employees need to ask their employers direct questions. Employees are in a rare position of power when it comes to being re-hired; the PPP is structured as a loan and will only be fully forgiven if employers rehire their staff, or the equivalent positions, back. As a trained, and presumably valuable employee, you are worth more to your employer than a new hire who will need training.
How many hours per week will you be paid for and how does that compare to what you were working before closure or would be working right now? Were you being paid benefits before and will your benefits be matched during this period? To be clear, the PPP loan amount is based on not just take-home pay, but benefit contributions made by your employer between January 2020 and March 2020.Many restaurants are currently operating at 50 percent capacity or less.
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