Barclays Center, Nets Workers Get Coronavirus Cancelation Pay

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center workers will get a helping hand for all the work they'll miss from coronavirus-related cancelations, a report says.

They're continuing to receive full pay and every paycheck for events they would have worked through the end of May, the New York Post reported.

The checks will total $6 million, the Post reported.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on March 12 — a seeming lifetime ago in the new coronavirus world — effectively canceled large events. A week later, he issued a sweeping "stay-at-home" order that sent all but "essential" workers home to work.

The orders left many Barclays and Nets employees without jobs, at least of the kind requiring them to work large events. But the arena's and team's owner Joe Tsai, who also owns Alibaba, is continuing to pay them as if the events took place and they worked, according to the Post.

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