Local restaurant inundated with unemployment claims from nonexistent employees
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Siri Hedreen / The Outlook

The Khans have received more than a dozen letters from Alabama Department of Labor in the past month requesting information on previous employees who filed for unemployment benefits. None of them ever worked for Carib Kitchen. 

From the time they opened the small lunch spot in 2019, Carib Kitchen owners Dianne and Reyard Khan haven't had to employ anyone apart from their own children.

For the last four weeks, however, the Trinidadian restaurant has been inundated with letters from the Alabama Department of Labor requesting information on previous employees who had filed for unemployment benefits, including earnings and why they were terminated.