Logan Square Pizzeria sued by state over age discrimination claim
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CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
State officials are taking a Logan Square pizzeria to court, demanding its owner fork over more than $30,000 in back pay and attorney's fees to a former waitress allegedly fired because of her age.
Mary Sasiki was 67 and had been working at Congress Pizza for more than 22 years when she was fired in 2006, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of the state's Department of Human Rights.
She filed a discrimination complaint with state officials less than a month later, claiming a manager confronted her "in a loud and derogatory manner" and told her to leave the restaurant and never return because she was old and couldn't hear well, Tuesday's complaint said.
Congress Pizza's owners never responded to the charge and didn't show up at a hearing in the case, the complaint said. A judge ruled in 2009 that the restaurant violated the state's Human Rights Act and ordered it to pay Sasiki $27,750 in back pay plus interest, as well as more than $6,040 in attorney's fees, but the complaint claims the restaurant has so far failed to pay up.
Tuesday's complaint demands the payment to Sasiki, also orders the restaurant not discriminate on the basis of age and perceived disability.
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