Managers wouldn't act on the reports - then came fewer hours and a passed-over promotion
A South Dakota fast-food franchisee ignored a worker's harassment complaints, then cut her hours after she spoke up, the EEOC alleges.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against TNT Chicken, Inc. on July 20, 2026, over how the company handled complaints from a Black female worker at the Slim Chickens franchise it runs in Sioux Falls. The agency alleges she was harassed because of her race and sex, retaliated against when she complained, and forced to quit.
According to the complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of South Dakota, the alleged conduct began around November 2023. A shift lead assigned to train the worker regularly used a racial slur to her face, the filing says. The complaint also alleges he told her he had never "been with" a Black woman and was curious about what Black women looked like naked.
The complaint also describes threats of physical violence. It says the shift lead told the worker he would cut her body up, put her in his trunk, and leave her in the woods where no one would find her. He also said he would buy a big whip and "whoop her like they used to whip horses," and that he knew someone with a hog farm because the animals devour "everything but the teeth," according to the filing.
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