Court documents show that the Subway franchise owner hired the employee on January 1, 2015.
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A Subway restaurant in central Indiana has been hit with a federal lawsuit for firing an employee who revealed he was HIV-positive, reports Indianapolis TV station WTHR.
Manawat allegedly responded by asking questions like: “What if you cut yourself?” and “What about if our customers find out?” According to the full wrongful-termination suit, the employee – whose name is understandably being kept anonymous – told his boss (a manager named Maria Manawat), and her response betrayed a few major unease. The EEOC is “also seeking other relief, including a permanent injunction to prevent the company from engaging in any future disability discrimination”.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing for back pay as well as punitive damages. [One quick gaze at the comments from this news station article shows the lack of education and understanding of HIV transmissions.].
The Center For Disease Control states that “HIV has not been spread through food”. You can not get it from consuming food handled by an HIV-infected person; even if the food contained small amounts of HIV-infected blood or semen, exposure to the air, heat from cooking, and stomach acid would destroy the virus.
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Court agreement expose Doe’s manager requested him, “What if you choose to trim your-self?” and “What about this if consumers verify?”
