Starbucks will never do that again. There are rules and regulations in place and so many studies now, they only did that because there was so much uncertainty with the beginning of the virus and so much unknown. They won’t push out all that money to pay people to sit on their bums again if there are things they can do to stay open. They paid us CAT pay because they received so much backlash and other companies were doing service pay as well

According to our most recent weekly update for third quarter they are continuing the paid leave for employees who get sick or are exposed. But not the optional LOA that was offered during the summer. From my sit down with the SM , it didn't even sound like a good offered compared to the LOA offered in spring 2020. He said they could call you back at anytime if they needed staff...