Article: Laid-Off Durham, N.C., Convenience Store Chain Workers to Get Back Pay.

By Vicki Lee Parker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 8--DURHAM, N.C.--The 175 Triangle employees laid off last week without pay from Swifty Serve, the Durham convenience store chain that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday, should get paid by Wednesday, a company official said

Jeff Hamil, who became president and chief executive of the troubled company in May, said a federal judge at the Middle District Bankruptcy Court in Greensboro approved the company's plan to pay the 3,200 workers who were due paychecks Friday.

Hamil said that Swifty Serve, the nation's second-largest ...

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