BUSTED: Sonny’s waitress fired for reporting sexual harassment caught the illegal firing on tape.

[Lunabell]

Source: Raw Story

A North Carolina waitress was fired after telling supervisors at her restaurant that a manager groped her, WBTV-TV reports.

Lauren Jones told the station she was a waitress at Sonny’s Barbecue in Charlotte for about a month when her manager came up behind her and grabbed her butt at the end of her shift.

“I immediately turned around with my left elbow, and kind of surprisingly looked at him in his face, and said ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’” she told WBTV.

Jones decided to report the incident to prevent it from happening again.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/north-carolina-waitress-fired-after-telling-bosses-about-managers-sexual-harassment/

[trillion]

1. Sounds like she has a suit. I hope someone will work pro-bono if she

can't pay. Being a waitress I doubt she has the money to sue, otherwise.

It should also be reported to the state EEOC. I think that company can have it's business license suspended for that kind of hostile environment that refuses to keep employees safe.

It appears she does not have to retain a lawyer to take this to court. First file with the EEOC though and they may handle it.

[Dustlawyer]

7. She has to file with the EEOC before she can file a suit.

The EEOC will investigate (not really, they, like all agencies are under-staffed and under-budgeted)! When they determine there is not enough evidence then she can request a "Right to sue" letter.

With this letter she can hire an attorney on a contingent fee contract, meaning the attorney only gets paid if there is a recovery. The attorney would get a percentage of the recovery and any case expenses the attorney paid for to develop the case. She will not need any money to pursue her case.

[Hoppy]

9. It's a Republcian state. They don't need no fuckin' EEOC.

[Calista241]

10. Even in Republican states

you can't sexually harass an employee, and you can't terminate an employee for being sexually harassed. It's against both state and federal law.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Good for her

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Internet is punishing them thru their facebook page

Update, 8:15 p.m. EST: WBTV reported that negative comments left on the restaurant chain’s Facebook page disappeared — until the station contacted Sonny’s asking about it.

“Thank you for bringing this to our attention,” a spokesperson said. “The issue has been resolved and everything is visible.”

According to the station, viewers began slamming Sonny’s online shortly after its initial report on Jones’ firing.

“Shame on you Sonny’s. I don’t care if she only worked for you for 1 day!” one Facebook user wrote. “Your franchise owner is not only misogynistic he is also unethical and his actions are illegal.”

[trillion]

5. Hopefully the EEOC will get complaints.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Yelp reviews taking a hit

http://m.yelp.com/biz/sonnys-bbq-charlotte-2

[RandiFan1290]

6. Disgusting

Very typical in that culture.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Thank you for your stereotyping. Which culture would that be? NT

[trof]

8. Sonny's BBQ sux.

Just sayin'.

[yellowcanine]

11. Grabbing a person's butt is more than sexual harassment. It is assault.

Sonny's Barbecue should have called the police on this guy. They are not in a position to say that they do not believe the employee just because she only worked there for a month and the alleged perp worked there for years. That is nuts. She doesn't have to work there at all. If a customer says this guy grabbed her butt are they going to say they do not believe it because they know the manager better than the customer? Someone at Sonny's does not have their head screwed on straight.

[itcfish]

12. I Bet this is not

the first time this guy has done this. Now that it is out in the open perhaps other employees or former employees will come out and back her story.