I’m not sure when it became a conservative standard that employers must maintain their entire workforce when there is no revenue to pay them. I do know it makes no sense to me.
The resort has been paying full wages. They will continue to make health insurance available - including the employer contribution, apparently.
But they won’t continue to pay people they can’t afford to keep working, so they’re bad guys...
I think the world is upside down.
I'm with you. We took a 10% pay cut and furlough through the worst of our employer's downturn, and there was possibility of more, but we recognized our employer was trying to keep us all and the cuts (reportedly) went to the top in the organization -- where allowed by law.
But to be blunt, if it had gone as deep as Gaylord, ZERO income for an extended period, there would have been no choice. And I (at least) could have wound up working for the competition instead. That's how the game is played.