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.
Should have been a sexual harassment lawsuit. Dude literally couldn’t hear the word “no” coming out of her mouth.
I detest religion, but I absolutely believe it’s wrong to violate someone’s religious apparel. But you touched on what makes it even more vile. I knew there was something that made this feel worse and it’s that a man felt secure violating the space of a woman. He should be charged for two violations. Thanks for articulating what I felt but couldn’t quite find.
Ya, ripping off any clothing should be at least sexual harassment.
Ya, ripping off any clothing should be at least sexual
harassmentassault.
The federal government won’t sue for sexual harassment, the employee would have to file a lawsuit herself.
Dude literally couldn’t hear the word “no” coming out of her mouth.
Oh he heard it, he just ignored it.
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.
That’s so infuriating - she reported the guy and nothing happened. Not until he tried to literally rip a piece of clothing off of her because he felt entitled to see her hair.
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Pretty typical when it comes to fast food employees. You got kids managing kids, who often don’t know shit about anything.
They probably brought it up to someone also inexperienced, who dropped the ball, and somewhere along the way, a actual professional realized the wtfness and moved it forward.
When I worked in fast food, my manager was two years older than me, and he didn’t know shit about anything not related to the food.
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Forcefully removing an employee’s clothes without consent. Yeah, seems like there should be consequences for that.
You would think a hijab is more sanitary than hair in a food service place.
“Your hijab is not regulation. Here, have this much more exposed hairnet that does the same thing but not as well.”
Chipotle’s defense is probably going to be, “We’re not responsible for the actions of individual franchise owners.”
Fun (maybe?) fact, all Chipotle restaurants are corporate owned, they don’t franchise.
Cool, didn’t know that. That makes their court case stronger.
That’s always been McDonalds defense.
“Oh, an employee took a shit in the deep fryer? We the McDonald’s corporation will write a strong letter denouncing shitting in the fryer and will forward it to the franchise owner. Now go and eat our other shit.”
Which, honestly, is understandable assuming they also take away the person’s franchise rights. I doubt corporate policy is to have people remove hijabs.
I gotta start filtering communities more, who gives a shit if some American backwater racist did racist things.
And yet instead of doing this, you replied? Seems like a questionable course of action
I do, and you should, because actively ignoring racists doing racist things, especially in a way that tramples people’s rights, enables those racists, and enables those rights tramplers.
You’re the guy who says nothing at a table full of Nazis.
I mean you’re literally on a community called news. What did you expect to see?
Please do, and leave while you’re at it.
“Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!” 👋
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The place becoming like Reddit. Just attempt at rage bait. I’m gonna block those communities and posts
Thanks for the update man, I was on pins and needles wondering what you were going to do after seeing this story! Update us later on what you’ll be eating for lunch!
Funny, y’all whining about seeing something you personally aren’t interested in is the most Reddit thing of all.
Please fucking do. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
