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"I was lying in bed getting ready to go to sleep. I heard ‘Springrock Gutters,’ and I kind of shot up and I looked at my wife and I said ‘What?'" said Snowden, a former employee of 101 Digital, Springrock Gutters' sister company."All of us had a few choice words. It was nice to see like, 'Hey, we're not the only ones going through this,'" said James Goggin, also a former employee of 101 Digital.
Even though their premiums were deducted from their paychecks, bi-monthly employees said they discovered their health insurance coverage was canceled without notice from May through November of last year. In January, Reinke acknowledged she was working to get those health insurance premiums returned to her Springrock employees. She also said she would pay employees for any wages they were owed. She did not provide a timeline.