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Judge Tells A&P To Divert Managers' Incentive Pay For Severance

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain suggested that a chunk of incentive pay set aside for managers of the A&P supermarket chain be diverted to severance pay for all of the employees, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain insisted that a chunk of money the A&P supermarket chain had put aside for 'key workers' be diverted to roughly 25,000 former employees as severance pay.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain insisted that a chunk of money the A&P supermarket chain had put aside for 'key workers' be diverted to roughly 25,000 former employees as severance pay.

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Drain felt that $1.1 million of the $5 million fund should be diverted towards roughly 25,000 workers.

The judge was quoted as saying that he was being asked to 'poke [each worker] in the eye' if he approved the $5 million fund, according to the Journal.

A&P had earmarked the money for 'key workers' in their bankruptcy reorganization.

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