As virus roars back, so do signs of a new round of layoffs
PAUL WISEMAN, TRAVIS LOLLER and KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The reopening of Tucson's historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month.
General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at half-capacity, along with an adjoining restaurant for outdoor dining. Yet with reported COVID-19 cases spiking across Arizona, Hanley made the painful decision last weekend to give up, for now.
"We are closing everything,'' he said. "We are going to live to fight another day.''
The move means that once again, most of Hanley's employees will lose their jobs, at least temporarily. Except for roughly a dozen who are needed to maintain the century-old property, more than 50 workers he had recalled will be laid off for a se