The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in its lawsuit that a manager at a Chipotle restaurant in Kansas forcibly removed a Muslim employee's hijab in 2021.

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.

  • danielbln@lemmy.world
    996·
    1 year ago

    I gotta start filtering communities more, who gives a shit if some American backwater racist did racist things.

    • YeetPics
      23·
      1 year ago

      who gives a shit

      I do. And I think I’m not alone.

      You can block communities by clicking the ellipses, I hope that helps 🤡

      Don’t forget to make a post about how unpleased you are with the discussions and announcing your departure so we call all cheer and flip you the bird as you leave.

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      231·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      “Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!” 👋

    • Haha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      557·
      1 year ago

      The place becoming like Reddit. Just attempt at rage bait. I’m gonna block those communities and posts

      • comedy@kbin.social
        27·
        1 year ago

        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!

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
        24·
        1 year ago

        Funny, y’all whining about seeing something you personally aren’t interested in is the most Reddit thing of all.

      • YeetPics
        16·
        1 year ago

        Nice attempt at rage bait!

        You don’t have to announce your departure, you aren’t a passenger jet lmao