A Charlotte IHOP franchise will pay $40,000 to settle claims of religious discrimination and retaliation.
Suncakes NC, LLC, a North Carolina-based company, and Suncakes, LLC, a Texas-based company doing business as IHOP, will pay $40,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.
The IHOP store at 134 W. Woodlawn Road in Charlotte hired the employee in January 2021, The Charlotte Observer previously reported. The EEOC filed the lawsuit in May 2023 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
The cook, a Christian, had requested and was granted a religious accommodation to not work on Sundays.
But three months later, a new general manager “expressed hostility toward the accommodation and required the employee to work” on two Sundays on April 25 and May 9 in 2021, according to the EEOC lawsuit. When the cook told the manager he would no longer work on Sundays because of his religious beliefs, he was fired.
Read more»CATHERINE MUCCIGROSSO | “Charlotte IHOP to pay $40,000 to Christian cook it fired after he asked for Sundays off” | August 9, 2024
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