Lou Bricano <l...@cap.con> wrote in news:G0jpM.17572$edH5...@fx11.iad:
> I'm going to buy a new dress with a hole in ass at the hippo mart
> tomorrow and dare Chipotle not to serve a gay dwarf.
A federal agency has sued the restaurant chain Chipotle, accusing it of
religious harassment and retaliation after a manager at a Kansas location
forcibly removed an employee's hijab, a headscarf worn by some Muslim
women.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
alleged that in 2021, an assistant manager at a Chipotle in Lenexa,
Kansas, repeatedly harassed the employee by asking her to show him her
hair, despite her refusal. After several weeks, the harassment culminated
in him grabbing and partially removing her hijab, according to the
complaint.
The manager's “offensive and incessant requests” that she remove her
hijab, and his attempt to physically take it off, were “unwelcome,
intentional, severe, based on religion, and created a hostile working
environment based on religion," the complaint alleged.
Chipotle's chief corporate affairs officer, Laurie Schalow, said the
company encourages employees to report concerns, including through an
anonymous hotline.
"We have a zero tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind and we
have terminated the employee in question,” she said in an emailed
statement.
The harassment began in July 2021, when the manager began asking the
employee, who was 19 at the time, to remove her hijab because he wanted to
see her hair. According to the complaint, he demanded to see her hair at
least 10 times over the course of one month. She refused on every
occasion, saying she wore it because of her religious beliefs.
The employee complained to another supervisor that the incidents made her
uncomfortable, but no further action was taken against the manager, the
complaint said. One night during closing in August 2021, the manager
allegedly reached out and pulled her hijab partially off her head.
The following day, the employee gave her two weeks' notice. Chipotle
didn't schedule her for any shifts during those two weeks even though
other non-Muslim employees who submitted their notice continued to be
scheduled for work during that time, the complaint alleged.
Simple solution. Don't hire unsanitary Muslims.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-agency-sues-chipotle-after-
kansas-manager-allegedly-103627590