Lawyers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say that a $50,700 verdict in federal court in Atlanta for workers fired from a DeKalb County Mexican restaurant is a warning to small businesses that, like large companies, they can be held accountable for discriminating, harassing, and then retaliating against their employees.
EEOC lawyers said that an owner of Sangria’s Mexican Cafe in Tucker supplied them with “the smoking gun” when he told state officials during his fight in 2009 to keep the fired employees from securing unemployment benefits that he had terminated them, in part, because he feared they would make false allegations to “government agencies,” said Chandra C. Davis, one of two EEOC lawyers who tried the case against the restaurant.
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