Trumbull Marriott Furloughs Could Be Long-Term: Manager

TRUMBULL, CT — The Trumbull Mariott manager warned that the location's 126 furloughed employees may remain off the job for more than six months. Employees were furloughed in mid-March. Only a skeleton crew of 10 employees remains at the location.

"Based on public health guidance and business forecasts available at the time, it was initially expected that these temporary actions would last significantly less than six months and that the location would return to normal business levels," wrote hotel manager Richard Pacino in a letter to the state and town on June 3. "These government COVID-19 directives, however, have repeatedly been expanded and extended and have forced people to remain in place, restricting business, large gatherings, and travel in general."

"These expanded and extended government directives have caused a sudden, severe and worsening downturn in the hospitality industry that now makes it reasonably foreseeable that these temporary actions may extend beyond six months," he said.