Four other women were also demoted, allegedly without just cause. A female kitchen manager was demoted after she became a mother and was later fired and replaced by a man. The lawsuit alleges a pattern of discrimination against female employees at the Duluth, Ga. In late June, Howard fired Honeycutt, telling her and other employees that he did so so she could be a stay-at-home mother. In April 2011, Howard hired a man named Bill Green as a general manager and began holding management meetings with him and two other male managers but excluded Honeycutt. But Jeff Howard, the restaurant's owner and operator, "routinely made comments to suggesting that as a mother she should stay home with her children." 1991 and was promoted to a general manager in 1997. More recently, a former employee of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia sued the company for wrongful termination, alleging she and other women employees were victims of gender discrimination.Īccording to the lawsuit filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Brenda Honeycutt began working at a Chick-fil-A in Duluth, Ga. The suit was settled, but the terms were not disclosed, Forbes reported. One of the cases involved Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston, who sued the company in 2002 because he was fired a day after refusing to participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program. In the debate raging over Chick-fil-A's position on gay rights, some defenders of the Georgia-based fast-food chain have claimed that despite Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy's statements against same-sex marriage and the company's generous funding of anti-gay groups, the outspokenly Christian corporation doesn't discriminate against workers.īut in fact, the company has been sued at least a dozen times for employment discrimination, according to Forbes magazine.
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