Market Basket has filed a legal complaint against two fired executives, claiming they have traveled to nearly two dozen stores in multiple states in recent days “to intimidate employees, to precipitate a work slowdown, employee walkout and customer boycott.”
The request for a restraining order was filed Monday in Lowell Superior Court, where a hearing is scheduled to be held on Thursday at 10 a.m.
The complaint names Joseph Schmidt and Tom Gordon, and includes surveillance images of Schmidt entering the company’s headquarters in Tewksbury.
“Market Basket associates are entitled to feel safe while performing their jobs whether at headquarters in Tewksbury or in stores. But in recent days, terminated executive Joseph Schmidt was documented on video after hours breaking and entering at the Tewksbury headquarters holding the master key that he has refused to return and moving around the offices totally unauthorized,” Steven Collins, one of four members of the grocery chain’s board, said in a statement. “In addition, Schmidt and Gordon traveled to 23 stores in multiple states in recent days, not to celebrate someone’s retirement, as feigned in an earlier violation of their suspension, but to intimidate employees, to precipitate a work slowdown, employee walkout and customer boycott.”…