BOSTON (Legal Newsline) -- Three Massachusetts women are suing a former employer for paid sick leave after allegedly not being able to return to work because they contracted COVID-19.
Nora Lainez, Silvia Nunez and Betsy Ramos filed a complaint on July 24 in Sussex Superior Court against Matarazzo Brothers LLC and Anthony Aresco as owner of Matarazzo Brothers.
According to the complaint, all three women contracted COVID-19 and had to take off work because of being sick. All three women allege that once they were better, they were not offered to return to work. The three women also allege that Aresco failed to pay them for 80 hours of sick leave they each had acquired while employed.
The women seek a total of $162,240, or $54,080 each, plus attorney's fees and cost of suit. The women are represented by Marcus Mitchell, Juan Espinosa Munoz and Nicole Summers.