A Black man who worked as a shift manager in Kansas McDonald’s he says his multiple requests to avoid working the same shift as a white co-worker known for using racial insults were repeatedly denied by the restaurant.
Business Insider reports that the man, Anthony Green, denounces the fast food giant and a franchisee for damages resulting from this and other cases of “constant racial harassment” before leaving work in May 2020.
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Green began working as a shift manager at a McDonald’s restaurant in Ottawa, Kansas, in January 2020, when he was 17 years old.
The following month, he heard that a Caucasian employee was using the word N at work, according to the lawsuit. Green reported in writing to the co-worker and told his supervisor, who was the general manager of the location. He then asked that it not be scheduled at the same time as the employee in the future, according to the lawsuit filed in Kansas.
But Green continued to schedule the same shifts as the employee, according to the lawsuit.
“According to information and belief, [McDonald’s] he did not take any disciplinary action [the employee] or warning him not to engage in any other racial harassment behavior, ”the lawsuit says.
Because of the assumption lack of intervention from the house that Ronald built, the lawsuit said the employee continued to use “racial harassment language” and often referred to Green as a “boy”. According to the lawsuit, nothing happened when Green also presented this to the owner of the Ottawa McDonald’s franchise.
As if it wasn’t bad enough to have heard a co-worker throwing home ready-made while preparing someone’s Saweetie food, the lawsuit also alleges that Green was routinely criticized and degraded by his supervisor in “ways that made him understand he was being targeted and harassed because of his race.”
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He also claims that McDonald’s did not pay him overtime owed to him and that staff members modified his time card to make it look like he worked fewer hours than he actually did, according to the lawsuit.
As a result, Business Insider reports that Green also seeks retribution, down payment and anything else the Kansas Human Rights Commission “deems appropriate” in addition to damages.
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“This constant racial harassment made working at McDonald’s too stressful for me (or anyone else in my place) to handle, especially because it was obvious that McDonald’s had done nothing to stop this harassment and was not interested. to do so, ”Green wrote a document accompanying the lawsuit.
McDonald’s did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit, according to Business Insider.