Hampton Inns going on precautionary ‘hiatus’ starting Thursday

March 24, 2020 | 2:20 pm

Updated March 25, 2020 | 6:20 pm

Both of Owensboro’s Hampton Inns will be temporarily closed effective 3 p.m. Thursday. That includes both the Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Owensboro/Waterfront and the Hampton Inn Owensboro South .

Madison Silvert, president of The Malcolm Bryant Corporation, announced today that all of the company’s owned and operated hotels will be “put on hiatus” until it is safe again for employees to return to work.

“This is purely a precautionary measure for our team members,” Silvert said. “We made a commitment not to reduce our employees’ hours early on. That was not an easy financial decision to make, but we made it work. There came a time, as our understanding of the coronavirus became clearer and cases were getting closer to home, that we began to think of putting our hotels on a temporary hiatus for the good of public health.”

Silvert said employees’ financial health remains a priority as well. 

“We have been in direct contact with the state workforce cabinet at the highest levels to ensure that our employees will not see any disruption or delay in their pay,” he said. “We always put our team members first, and we want to make sure that they are healthy and ready to return to work when this pandemic is over. However, we have a duty to the public as well, and we believe this is the right thing to do to help reduce public gathering and the eventual burden on our health care resources.”

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March 24, 2020 | 2:20 pm

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