My restaurant let us know that we’ll be “closed on Halloween for renovations, enjoy Halloween!”. Then the 3rd day comes and renovations weren’t done. Now the 4th day. Most likely a 5th day. And i don’t even want to keep thinking it’s going to extend further, but per one of my managers before we closed, “they’re trying to do in 2 days what should be a couple weeks”. Obviously this is affecting my money situation being a server. I try to budget as well as possible but considering 4-5 shifts is about $500-700, that’s a big chunk of change. I’m getting anxious thinking it’ll last longer than 5 days.
But alas to my point, is this even legal? Just to shut down and not offer compensation? I don’t wanna be the person to make a stink but it’s the end of the month and I’ve got bills on bills. They were planning on shutting down in January “for renovations” which is plenty notice, and we were told we’d be compensated for the 2 weeks. But something just doesn’t seem right when 2 week renovations were supposed to be happening in January, but all of a sudden a 2 days renovation process is going on to 5 days.