07/09/2022
When a seafood restaurant did nothing to address a waitress’ complaints about a kitchen manager assaulting and harassing her, she called police — and was fired hours later in Florida, according to a federal lawsuit.
Prior to her firing, management repeatedly told the waitress to ignore the kitchen manager, whose “verbal abuse escalated to physical,” and that “nothing would be done to change the situation” at AJ’s Oyster Shanty in Fort Walton Beach, a complaint filed Aug. 30 states.
The complaint says that instead of firing the kitchen manager who physically assaulted and sexually harassed the waitress, the oyster bar restaurant “sided” with him and unlawfully retaliated against her.
