Chipotle Mexican Grill, well-known for its rooster burrito bowl and its diarrhea-spattered bogs, is to pay $240,000 to employees it fired after they unionized.

Chipotle introduced it was completely closing its Augusta, Maine, location final yr after employees filed a Nationwide Labor Relations Board petition for a union election. The NLRB later stated the closure was unlawful.

The Maine location was the primary within the chain to file a union petition. The settlement, launched by union officers on Monday, states that two dozen staff will obtain funds from Chipotle and they are going to be positioned on a preferential hiring record for different Maine places.

The corporate should additionally publish a discover in dozens of shops in New England that it will not shut shops or discriminate towards staff attributable to union help, the settlement states.

Nothing in comparison with the $25m it needed to pay for serving tainted meals.