McDonald’s franchise to pay - manager forced employees to deadname trans worker

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   McDonald's franchise forced to pay up after manager forced employees to deadname trans worker

                        LGBTQ NATION (NEWS)
   https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/mcdonalds-franchise-forced-to-pay-up-after-manager-forced-employees-to-deadname-trans-worker/

By Alex Bollinger
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

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A McDonald's franchise has been found liable for harassment and discrimination against a trans woman after, among other things, a manager put up a sign telling employees to deadname her.

It was Syntia D.'s first job when she started working at the McDonald's franchise in Segré, France (near Angers) in September 2022. While she was already in the process of transitioning, she hadn't told her boss yet.

In January 2023, she was running late for work, so she decided to go to work wearing women's clothes, breast padding, and makeup. She told the magistrate that she thought her coworkers would be supportive...

But soon after, she was forced to have a meeting about placing her in a new position at work while she was on the receiving end of transphobic comments. The manager asked her to take off her makeup and put up a sign banning her coworkers from using her chosen first name.

"They tried to send her to the Super U [a supermarket] next door to buy makeup remover to take off her lipstick," one of her lawyers, Gwenola Vaubois, told France Bleu. Syntia refused, and shortly after, she was told not to come to work anymore.