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An IHOP restaurant in North Carolina will pay $40,000 to a former employee who was forced in 2021 to work on Sundays in violation of his religious beliefs.
The settlement was announced Aug. 6 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency tasked with enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination, which had filed a lawsuit on the employee’s behalf in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
According to the lawsuit, the defendant was hired as a cook at an IHOP location in Charlotte in January 2021.
“At the time of hire, the employee requested and was granted a religious accommodation of not working on Sundays to honor his religious observances,” the Aug. 6 announcement says.
“After a change in management in April 2021, the new general manager expressed hostility toward the accommodation and required the employee to work on Sunday, April 25, and Sunday, May 9. After the employee told the general manager that due to his religious beliefs, he would no longer work on Sundays, the general manager fired him.”
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The settlement was announced Aug. 6 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency tasked with enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination, which had filed a lawsuit on the employee’s behalf in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
According to the lawsuit, the defendant was hired as a cook at an IHOP location in Charlotte in January 2021.
“At the time of hire, the employee requested and was granted a religious accommodation of not working on Sundays to honor his religious observances,” the Aug. 6 announcement says.
“After a change in management in April 2021, the new general manager expressed hostility toward the accommodation and required the employee to work on Sunday, April 25, and Sunday, May 9. After the employee told the general manager that due to his religious beliefs, he would no longer work on Sundays, the general manager fired him.”
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IHOP to pay settlement to employee who was forced to work on Sundays
The general manager was also alleged to have made comments to other employees such as “religion should not take precedence over [the employee’s] job.”
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