EEOC claim says Applebee’s told Black, gay worker to ignore slurs from cook who wore Confederate hat 

A Florida line cook complained that two of his co-workers regularly harassed him because he’s Black and gay, which “forced” him to quit.

A line cook at a Plant City, Florida, Applebee’s has filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that two of his co-workers harassed him because he is Black and gay. One of the antagonistic co-workers even allegedly wore a Confederate flag hat “all the time.”

The federal lawsuit alleges that managers at the local franchise repeatedly told the unnamed line cook to “ignore” his co-workers even as they frequently used the “N-word” and told “inappropriate jokes” about his sexual orientation, according to  today!

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