Kroger to pay $K after firing workers who refused to wear logo allegedly resembling Pride flag
The Kroger supermarket chain will spend $, to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit after two former employees alleged they were fired from an Arkansas grocery store in for refusing to wear logos they mind resembled a rainbow Celebration flag.
The settlement was reached earlier this week and announced Thursday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of career discrimination on the basis of legally protected classes, such as race, sex or religion.
Kroger denied in court filings that it fired the women as a result of discrimination about their religious convictions, and said the apron uniforms, which had a rainbow-colored heart, were not intended to express help for the LGBTQ community.
Judge Lee Rudofsky, a district court judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas and a Donald Trump appointee, signed off on the settlement, which was reached after years of litigation. The agreement is between Kroger Limited Partnership I, a subsidiary of the Cincinnati-based supermarket chain, and the EEOC and requires a store in Conway, Arkansas,
Does your store have its gay pride merchandise prominently displayed?
Ours does and if Kroger isn't careful, people are going to start boycotting them the way they're boycotting Target and Budweiser and all the others. Proceed woke go broke.
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Ours does and if Kroger isn't careful, people are going to commence boycotting them the way they're boycotting Target and Budweiser and all the others. Go woke travel broke.
If I see that crap I will criticize . I was at Walmart a few days ago and employees had those things around their neck like you get in Hawaii. I forget what they are called. But they were rainbow colors they have stolen the meaning of the Rainbow.
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Anonymous wrote:
Ours does and if Kroger isn't careful, people are going to start boycotting them the way they're boycotting Target and Budweiser and all the others. Go woke go broke.
If I see that crap I will complain. I was at Walmart a few days ago and employees had those things around
Kroger had to pay $, to workers who were fired after they wouldn't wear LQBTQ+ pride symbols
Kroger has to pay $, to two former employees who were fired after they refused to wear a company apron with a phrase that they considered to be an LGBTQ+ symbol after a lawsuit.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on behalf of the two employees who were disciplined and ultimately fired from their jobs at a Kroger in Conway, Arkansas. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Brenda Lawson and Trudy Rickerd on September 14, , in Eastern Arkansas District court, according to court documents.
Rickerd and Lawson alleged that Kroger failed to provide religious accommodations for them when they were asked to wear an apron with a "multicolored heart on it."
"Defendant Employer refused to examine Lawson's request for a religious accommodation for her sincerely held religious belief," the lawsuit says. "Defendant Employer continued to discipline Lawson for her shortcoming to follow the dress code by wearing the apron that was opposite to her sincerely held religious belief."
The lawsuit requested backpay for Rickerd and Lawson and asked for punitive damages and asked Kroge
These multibillion-dollar companies won't speak whether they're sponsoring Identity festival this year
Many companies that were awash in rainbows last June won't tell whether they're sponsoring Cincinnati Pride this summer.
It's part of a national trend that has longtime corporate sponsors dropping their financial support of the LGBTQIA community, some for the first time in decades. Beer giant Anheuser-Busch declined to sponsor St. Louis Pride after over 30 years of partnership, while Comcast informed organizers of Pride from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., of the same thing.
Silence was the main response from companies that had sponsored Cincinnati Pride in past years, some of which are multibillion-dollar conglomerates.
Last year, Procter & Gamble served as a diamond sponsor for the Cincinnati Identity festival parade and festival. Diamond sponsors shell out $20, in exchange for their logos to be displayed on a street banner, T-shirts and other festival signage, among other perks. But this year, the company didn't respond to The Enquirer's emails about whether they were sponsoring Pride this summer.
When The Enquirer contacted other companies that donated tens of thousands of dollars to Cinci