Nets take care of Barclays Center’s hourly workers
Franchise to pay hourly workers for time lost to coronavirus
Joe Tsai, the billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets, the New York Liberty and Downtown’s Barclays Center, may feel the economic effects of the NBA’s recent shutdown due to the region’s growing number of cases of the novel coronavirus.
But the 56-year-old co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group knows that there are people working in and around his organization that need immediate financial relief from what is shaping up to be an extended stretch of inactivity for his team and its arena.
“With the aim of helping Barclays Center staff get through this difficult time, we commit to provide relief to hourly employees for the paychecks they would have earned if Brooklyn Nets regular season games and non-Nets events at Barclays Center were to continue as originally scheduled,” read a statement issued over the weekend by Tsai’s group BSE Global.