“TAMPA — Two McDonald’s employees were fired from their jobs after filing a federal discrimination lawsuit in middle district of Florida court that accused a manager of being racist against Black workers.
The lawsuit, filed in Tampa in July, alleged the general manager of the corporate-owned Lakeland locations cut the hours of Black workers while maintaining those of other workers, assigned Black workers menial cleaning tasks not within their job descriptions, ignored Black workers requests for time off in favor of others and made racist comments about Black customers and employees. After exposure to COVID-19, two workers in the lawsuit said they returned from quarantine only to be fired, according to their attorneys, who filed an amendment to the lawsuit Tuesday.
The fast-food giant said the decision to fire the employees was made separate from the pending lawsuit. […]
The amended lawsuit accuses the fast-food chain of terminating the workers as another example of unfair treatment and a direct response to the lawsuit. […]
Scott was fired on Sept. 27. Augustus “Gus” Moody, 33, was fired Sept. 17 for alleged “insubordination,” according to lawsuit. It says Moody was not insubordinate but set up for failure and written up for things like having a missing name tag while other employees weren’t given infractions for the same things. Moody also had to to take two separate mandated leaves in recent months because of exposure to coronavirus. […]
Also on Tuesday, McDonald’s workers in Rock Island, Ill. filed their own lawsuit against the corporation with allegations similar to those laid out in the Florida case. […]
“Florida is thus not an isolated incident, but is instead symptomatic of a pattern or practice of McDonald’s corporate leadership’s failure to address pervasive racism and anti-Black sentiment throughout the organization,” the Florida lawsuit says. […]
McDonald’s workers held a car caravan at the 5525 Walt Loop Road restaurant named in the lawsuit on Tuesday afternoon, similar to a Fight for $15 minimum wage caravan held at a Tampa McDonald’s last month.”
The Ledger | Sara DiNatale | October 15, 2020
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