Posted on 07/06/2016 6:17:21 AM PDT by SleepySimon
BENTONVILLE (KATV) — An Arkansas McDonald's is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after they claim the restaurant fired an employee after they found out he was HIV positive.
The EEOC claims the Bentonville McDonald's, which is owned and operated by Mathews Management Company and Peach Orchard, Inc., "violated federal law when it terminated an employee because of his HIV positive status." According to the EEOC, Mathews Management Company owns and operates 34 McDonald's restaurants.
The suit, which was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division, alleges they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when they fired an employee days after learning he was HIV positive.
The lawsuit also claims the companies require employees to report their use of prescription medication, which also violates the ADA.
In a release from the EEOC, a commission spokesperson says the suit is seeking back pay, along with compensatory and punitive damages, compensation for lost benefits, removal of the prescription medication policy, and an injunction against future discrimination.
The EEOC said they first tried to "reach a voluntary settlement through its prelitigation conciliation process."
McDonalds.
Didn’t they used to have good hamburgers, like back in 1965?
Food safety be damned.
Pretty decent. Now their best is the McChicken, a crispy little thing on a bun that's on their dollar menu (or whatever it's gone up to).
HIV is a disability? How does that square?
Their advertisements "Ahm Luvin' It" are very unappealing. and somewhat anti-white.
A few years ago we went to a McD's to get some coffee and the paper that they use on the trays was advertising to minorities ONLY for management training. Black, Latino, and some other non-white whatever.
Their current radio ad campaigns in our area are the same. It is their attempt to target the traditional Burger King patrons.
They don't want white customers? Fine, happy to oblige! We are better off for it as well. Crappy food and generally a good location (besides ihop and waffle house) for brawls.
I know the transmission likelihood outside of body fluid to body fluid is very low, but there are cases where it has happened.
It certainly won't stop lawyers from trying to extract a monetary claim out of McDonald's...
After all, they are lawyers...
HOW DARE YOU TO DISRESPECT A QUEER..!!!
Just because they are emotionally ill (crazy), have a communicable disease and love to stuff strange and unusual things up their butts doesn't give you the right make them stop preparing and serving food to you and your family.....s/
This company needs to counter sue the EEOC for ruining their business. Anyone with a brain should know you don’t have people who are HIV positive working in food preparation. Letting that employee go in that situation was not discrimination;it was common sense.Now I’m wondering if any HIV cases will result from someone who has eaten there in the past & what that might portend. Wonder if the EEOC would back an employee on discrimination charges if said employee was a known terrorist?
A fellow I know who worked at Gillette (pre-merger, back in the ‘90s) had a useless employee who had AIDS. He was transferred to Boston, given his own office a chair and a desk. No phone. No computer. Nobody to interact with. He was paid.
I posted a thread on this story last night from a different source and now it has totally disappeared. How does that happen?
My comments on Facebook...
If we let a HIV person work in the food industry maybe we should also allow Typhoid Mary and “lungers” (TB positiive) to also work there. Nothing better than having your food cooked and seasoned by a Leper.
Maybe we could bring in some plague carriers to show “diversification”.
I thought HIV is in all bodily fluids (BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER USAF was on to something, Dr. Strangelove ref.) and people who floss usually have some sort of gum damage. Not to mention that the moist warmth a burger is a great growth median.
Me too!
Ok. I know the tradition here is for posters to remain silent on their own threads but I’m in medicine and I can’t really sit still for the people who seem to think or imply that HIV can be transmitted by food handling.
Handling your food or even tainting it with saliva is not an HIV risk. It’s blood, semen or nada for HIV transmission. Even then he could spit blood on your burger and unless you had an open sore in your mouth the chances of you avoiding HIV are pretty good.
If you suspect your food servers are not just spitting in your food but tainting it with blood and semen then you have other problems.
I was in the Navy during the 80’s. One of cook’s tested positive for HIV. He was immediately transferred from the galley to a position where he would have no contact with food.
So even communicable diseases can’t be discriminated against now? Let the Democrats run on that one. Little particles are falling out of their mouths and noses onto the food all the time.
“I thought HIV is in all bodily fluids “
The issue is transmission, not presence. Transmission requires the virus surviving outside of the body. Unless it is raw blood, it will not. Even bloody saliva has low virus count and unless the person is drooling right into your open mouth herpes sore, it will not transmit HIV. There has been no instance of saliva/sweat/sneeze transmitting HIV like it can transmit cold/flu/ebola.
I understand that people with any potentially contagious disease should not work in food/preparation. Just don’t panic for no reason.
I eat out regularly, so being illness-free isn’t from that.
But I haven’t been sick in decades, can’t remember the last time.
The secret is to stay away from children. They are infested!
I thought the ending song, "The Yelper Special", was a bit over the top, myself.
Lol. I may have left only 10% for a tip sometimes but I’ve never done anything that would lead someone to carve open their own flesh to bleed on my food. I’m no Alec Baldwin.
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