COVID Impact: Marriott Hotel Workers Enlist NYC Councilman To Help Get Their Jobs Back After Pandemic Ends

CBS New York

April 3, 2021

Several hundred employees who were let go from a popular hotel in Times Square say they deserve their jobs back when the coronavirus pandemic is over.

Peter Dorton spent nearly two decades as a server at the New York Marriott Marquis. He was furloughed due to COVID-19 last year and was devastated to recently learn he and many of his fellow employees have been permanently let go.

“Our world was … came crashing down. Not only were we in a pandemic, now we’ve lost our career,” Dorton said told CBS2’s Kiran Dhillon.

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