Father Of Boy With Down Syndrome Fired After Asking Co-Workers Not To Use Offensive Language

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Sorry if this was posted - dateline June 1:

PLUM (KDKA) — A Plum woman is using social media to voice her outrage about a local Chili’s restaurant after her boyfriend was fired.

Crista Miller says her boyfriend, Bruce Casper, was fired from his job at the Chili’s in the Pittsburgh Mills Mall this past weekend after complaining to management about employees using offensive language.

Miller and Casper are getting married later this month. They have three children together. Their youngest, a 16-month-old toddler named Kyron, has Down syndrome.

Miller says on her Facebook page that her boyfriend was allegedly called a “retard” by two female employees.

She says when he made it clear that his son has Down syndrome, and he wouldn’t tolerate the word, the manager said, “You can leave then,” and he did.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/06/01/father-of-boy-with-down-syndrome-fired-after-asking-co-workers-not-to-use-offensive-language/

[joeybee12]

1. I think it was...sounds familiar...

KNR anyway.

[randys1]

2. Sue them ...quickly, if a con wins the WH tort reform will end all that suing stuff

[HassleCat]

3. Get a labor lawyer

and ask her about the term "constructive dismissal."

[BlueJazz]

4. I understand about free speech and all but if I were the manager, I certainly would have asked the..

...other employees (kindly) to ease up on words like that. ...and I'd tell them that I would greatly appreciate it.

[riversedge]

9. No need for that kind stuff. Managers/owners just need to make it clear

they they not put up with harassment, verbal abuse, discrimination towards anyone. Period

[BlueJazz]

10. That's the way I treat people the first time. Second time, very different

[Sheepshank]

5. Hostile work environment

yup...Chilies will be paying for that one.

[Runningdawg]

6. Unless

it's a right to work state like OK - then he hasn't got a leg to stand on.

[Sheepshank]

8. hostile work environment is independent of unions

Federal and State labor laws are actually in favor of the employee on this type of matter. The biggest hurdle will be determining if he was fired or if he walked off the job.

[Major Nikon]

12. Actually the biggest hurdle will be determining if it involved a protected class

In this case I don't see how you get there from here.

[lpbk2713]

7. Evidently Chili's has low expectations of their managers.

A trained and experienced manager would know better.

I'll have to keep this in mind and avoid Chili's in the future.

[KamaAina]

11. Well, that Chili's, anyway