Friday's Letter to the editor

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Paid leave

Dear editor:

Visit Hot Springs employees are getting full pay while laid off due to the virus. Meanwhile, thousands of restaurant and hotel employees are laid off receiving no payment except unemployment benefits.

The employees that cooked the food, served the food, made up guests' beds, and cleaned the toilets, often for minimum wages, and collected the taxes going to Visit Hot Springs are scraping by while Visit Hot Springs employees are doing nothing and getting paid.

It does not seem to be fair. The millions of tax dollars collected and spent by Steve Arrison, in my opinion, should not be used to pay laid-off employees (including Mr. Arrison). They should stand in line for several hours filing for unemployment benefits.

John Aulgur

Hot Springs

Editorial on 03/27/2020

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