Looks like Chik-Fil-A may be in more trouble

[GObamaGO]

Chick-Fil-A Owner Fires Woman In Order To Make Her A Stay At Home Mom

In a recent lawsuit filed against the owner of a franchise in Duluth, GA as well as against the parent company of Chick-Fil-A is but the latest strike against the troubled fast food chain, as new allegations of gender discrimination have come to light.

Within the court briefing, it is revealed that Brenda Honeycutt, the store’s General Manager with 21 years of service under her belt, found herself frozen out of management meetings and eventually replaced in that role with a male hired by her store’s owner, Jeff Howard, earlier this year. This came after 5 other female employees found themselves demoted or terminated in the past year despite high performance metrics. The owner allegedly made it clear to Ms Honeycutt as well as others that the termination was a move designed to force Ms Honeycutt into a role as a stay-at-home mother.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/30/chick-fil-a/

[longship]

1. What a douche bag! nt

Speechless!
R&K for visibility

[mzteris]

2. and this is surprising why?

They're good "cuhrisjuns" and wimminfolk are supposed to stay at home. Jobs are for MEN. Women just birth babies and do house work. And uh - service - their overlord, I mean husband - whenever he wants.

[GObamaGO]

38. I never said it was surprising

I was just basking in the schadenfreude of their change of fortunes. The gender discrimination is just the icing on the cake.

[HockeyMom]

3. "Bible" views

As a woman's place is in the home, married, and making as many babies as possible. Chik-Fil-A is not only Anti-Gay, Anti-Non-Christian, but Anti-Female, and Anti-Unmarried as well.

[Sirveri]

37. One of the groups they donated too claims credit for the VA vaginal ultrasound bill.

No woman should ever eat there, unless they support rape by the state.

[hifiguy]

4. This lawyer smells a class action

a-brewing.

[yourout]

6. oh yah.......this is going to get very expensive for them.

[unapatriciated]

24. not a lawyer but was amazed at how blatant this franchise owner was.

In reading the complaint, it look like every woman working for him in any type of management position was demoted after what appeared to be the common thread of motherhood.

I doubt this is only occurring at this location.

[Raster]

33. because Jeezus would want those women discriminated against....

...don't they know their place is in the home?

[rateyes]

29. question...

In GA, being a right to work state, one can be terminated for no reason whatsoever without notice. How will this affect a lawsuit for wrongful termination?

[unapatriciated]

30. Even in right to work states, you can't discriminate.

DISCRIMINATION

Age: The Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits discrimination against workers who are 40 years of age or older. The law applies to all private employers with 20 or more employees, employment agencies and certain labor unions. Georgia law provides it is a misdemeanor to discriminate in hiring and employment against individuals between the ages of 40 and 70.

Bankruptcy: Generally, federal law prohibits discrimination in employment decisions against people who have declared bankruptcy.

Disability: Employers are prohibited from engaging in discrimination against qualified individuals with a disability by the Georgia Equal Employment for People with Disabilities Code, The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. A "qualified individual with a disability" is an individual who possesses the requisite skills, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the position and who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. An "individual with a disability" is a person with a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment or is regarded by the employer as having such an impairment. The determinatin of whether a person is “disabled” should be made with reference to measures that might mitigate that individual’s impairment, including medicine or eye glasses. Typical "major life activities" are caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning and working. "Reasonable accommodation" might include making existing facilities accessible to the disabled, restructuring jobs, reassigning work or otherwise modifying schedules, or revising employment tests. An employer is not required to create a job that does not already exist. An accommodation is not reasonable where it would cause the employer undue hardship (significant difficulty or expense).

Equal Pay: The Equal Pay Act and Georgia law forbid employers to pay different wages to men and women who are performing equal jobs.

Pregnancy: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Women affected by pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work.

Race, Color, Religion, Sex or National Origin: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination (any adverse employment action) by employers of 15 or more employees, employment agencies, and labor organizations on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Section 1981 prohibits discrimination against employees based on their race.

Retaliation: The law prohibits employers from retaliating against their employees for asserting their rights to be free of discrimination.

Sexual Orientation: There is currently no Federal or Georgia law prohibiting discrimination against employees based on their sexual orientation.[div class=

http://sos.georgia.gov/firststop/georgia_employers.htm

Federal law trumps, but you have to prove they used discrimation when terminating.

[rateyes]

34. thanks

[nxylas]

40. I used to work for the agency that enforced those laws in SC

As you say, you can't legally discriminate even in right-to-work states, though discrimination can often be hard to prove. In this case, however, there's a clear pattern of discrimination. Without a full investigation, I can't say for sure what the Human Affairs Commission's ruling would be had the complaints been made in South Carolina. But based on my experience there, it wouldn't surprise me if the complaints were upheld.

[obamanut2012]

43. This isn't correct

You cannot terminate anyone for being black, hispanic, married, single, disabled, female, etc.

[toddwv]

31. With pre-established history of discriminatory behavior by the principal.

That's got to be a CAL's wet dream...

[NightWatcher]

5. The chickfila dude sounds like one of those Promise Keepers

Gotta keep the womenfolk at home where they can stay barefoot and pregnant. They need to know their role....


Nice crowd there

[Ilsa]

7. They learned nothing from the news about WalMart lawsuits?

The lawyers and HR for Chickfila must be I'll-informed idiots.

[former9thward]

8. What would they learn?

Walmart won its case. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2011-06-20-walmart-sex-bias-case_n.htm

[Ilsa]

10. My bad. I had not remembered that the Sups had ruled.

I was still thinking of massive suit brought through the system.

[TriplD]

11. That's what happens when you hire lawyers based on

their "Christian values" as opposed to their legal knowledge.

[-..__...]

17. Perhaps they did...

Or it was never their policy to begin with.

This comes from one franchise out of 1,614 and there's no evidence (so far), that this policy/abuse came from upper level management; nor is there any evidence of a wide spread/pattern of abuse that went on for years and was ignored by corporate officials.

It's all on the shoulders of the one ignorant jack ass that managed the franchise.

[lunatica]

28. This is at the executive level

Franchises are at the local level. Big difference.

[Bluenorthwest]

36. Each and every Chick Fil A location is owned 100% by Chick Fil A Company

The stores are not owned, they are 'operated' by a company selected 'operator' who hold no equity share whatsoever.

[GObamaGO]

41. That is not true

Chick-Fil-A offers franchises. They are a bit more controlling about who gets a franchise, (and each franchisee can only operate one store), and where the locations can be, but the franchisee appears to own the location.

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Company/Careers-Franchise-Opportunity

[abelenkpe]

9. Given his views this is not surprising

I was just arguing with a friend over the whole Chic-Fil-A stuff that given their views on gay marriage why would anyone believe they thought women deserved equal pay for equal work, or even that they thought women should do anything but be baby making machines subservient to men?

[rurallib]

12. in this day and age that is just plain stupid

does he think god or jesus will save him?

[HopeHoops]

13. Keep digging. Keep digging. Eventually you'll dig a whole deep enough to bury yourself.

I don't know why companies feel compelled to self-destruct like this, but my bet is on a planned exit for the executives, leaving the franchise owners to wallow in chicken shit.

[47of74]

14. Or as I call 'em: Chick-Fail-A

[aggiesal]

15. There goes . . .

The Fil-A-Chik
Bowl game.

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Un-fucking-believable.

And how do they expect some women to feed and cloth their kids without a job? Or will they pay these women to stay home? Oops, my bad, that sounds like welfare.

[freshwest]

18. Ann agrees with Mittens that 'those people' should work outside the home. As her maid, likely, but..

I wonder if this the backdoor to polygamy. After all, if the women can't all find work, they can just join a harem. Those who can find work outside the home, can. Those who can't, will stay at home and take care of the working wives' kids.

It'll all be just one big happy family ruled over by some viagra pumped up, book thumping prick. Great future for the women of this country as envisioned by the GOP.

[Curmudgeoness]

19. I posted that on my FB page.

I love it.

I hope that you are over-reacting, but I agree that it is scary as hell to even think of Romney Rule!

[GObamaGO]

22. They envision a world where women have no autonomy

"The Handmaid's Tale" comes to mind.

[Initech]

20. The anti progress party. They want to.take us back to the dark ages.

[Blue Owl]

21. Well Chick-fil-fuckin-A!!!

[ck4829]

23. K&R

[unapatriciated]

25. More troubles regarding their family values.....

http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-4-women-claim-they-were-sexually-harassed-at-chickfila-20120105,0,2055463.story

edited to add: that this happened in January, family value problems is not a new thing for this company. I wonder if this case has gone to court and how it turned out.

[MADem]

26. This is how to do it!

Get 'em for workplace discrimination like this, like forcing people to pray, etc.

[lunatica]

27. Give them a mik and let them keep digging

We women love to hear this shit.

[McCamy Taylor]

32. That was illegal in the 1960s.

[Bluenorthwest]

35. And yet so many DUers have said Chick Fil A does not discriminate in any way

How they are privy to that infomation I don't know, but man they assure us that the company is just golden, and to boycott them is very wrong.

[GObamaGO]

39. Yes, I found myself scratching my head at all of that.

What part of "corporate profits are used to fund groups that promote discrimination against GLBTs" do people not get?

[obamanut2012]

42. This is against Federal and State law

LGBT employees have zero Federal protection, but women do, and marriage status, too.