Sunday, April 20, 2008

Friendly's and Verbal Sexual Abuse - Is It Okay?

It seems apparent that the management team at the Friendly’s Restaurant in Stony Brook, Long Island, New York is unaware of state and federal law regarding sexual harassment of employees by customers.

Recently, a female member of their wait staff had a customer who thought it was not only okay to steal her pen, but when she protested the theft, called her a term that qualifies as unlawful sexual harassment. I will not include the complete spelling of the word, but it is a four letter word beginning with C.

When management learned of the incident, they did nothing to uphold the law against sexual harassment, but did think the best move was to fire the waitress.

In my mind, this makes the management of this particular Friendly’s complicit and therefore liable for punishment due to their ignoring both a state and federal law against sexual harassment.

What can you do? Boycott Friendly’s Restaurants until they educate management to comply with the law and ban customers who sexually, or in any way, verbally assault their wait staff.

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