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A Georgia business went bankrupt after the owner was served with an eviction lawsuit several months ago, causing employee payments to bounce.
It has been claimed by former employees that their final paychecks bounced after the closure of a popular trampoline park in Gwinnett County, Georgia, which occurred during the owner’s eviction proceedings.
This followed a lawsuit that had been brought against the owner a few months prior.
Workers, the majority of whom were teenagers, were caught off guard when the establishment on Scenic Highway, close to Snellville, abruptly shut down in early August.
The abrupt closing caught one 15-year-old worker, Morgan Moore, by surprise. “For my very first job, I didn’t expect it,” she said, referring to her summer job at the Scenic Highway location.
Tiesha Ford, Morgan Moore’s mother, found out a few days after her daughter deposited her last paycheck from Urban Air Adventure Park on August 13th that the check bounced.
It wasn’t only my kid,” Ford informed Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson. Barely a single child’s check cleared. It’s as if they were indifferent.
According to WSBTV, Marcella Edwards, another ex-employee, said that her daughter, who was 16 years old and had worked at the Urban Air facility since January, had her last paycheck bounce as well.
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Since her daughter had been working all summer to save enough for back-to-school shopping, Edwards stated that her daughter was “really, really hurt” by this.
Urban Air Adventure Park owner White and two members of his family were sued in June by Scenic Capital LLC, the property owner of the shopping complex where the park was situated, according to court records.
The contention in the complaint was that White had failed to fulfill his obligations under the property’s commercial lease.
According to the records, White was about to be evicted before the company closed its doors in early August.
They have not provided any explanations or guarantees that their children will get paid the income they earned, according to the parents of the impacted former employees.
The mother of one worker, Tiesha Ford, said that her daughter’s bank account was charged overdraft costs because of the failed paycheck.
“The owner needs to compensate the children, not only for the funds that they worked for but also for the delinquent bounces that occurred,” according to Ford, who thinks the owner should know better.
According to an Urban Air representative, each station is run by a different person.
After suing White, the property owner’s lawyers reportedly had trouble getting in touch with him, according to court records.
According to Marcella Edwards, “With these checks bouncing, that is unacceptable.” The parents also claim that there is no justification for their children not being paid.
“Apologies for the inconvenience,” reads the handmade “closed” sign on the door of the location.
