Dollar General is under fire for doing this, claims the former employee
The company faces a new trial with serious allegations.
The popularity of Dollar General is difficult to deny: the low prices of the retailer managed topull 40% Of all American buyers in its stores, according to Insider. This allowed the chain of dollar stores to grow enormously recently, with Dollar General Storesmore than double across the country last year. But the company also faced its just part of the reverse. More recently, Dollar General has been struck by a new trial which makes serious allegations. Read the rest to know why the retailer is now prosecuted.
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Dollar General had already faced controversy earlier this year.
Dollar General is no stranger to the wrongs. In recent months, buyers have received warnings on the company. In mid-April, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Consumption Services of North Carolina (NCDA & CS) sent a press release, informing consumers that Dollar General was part of a certain number of retailers who were sentenced to a fine because of "Excessive errors in price scanning"In state stores.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Earlier in May, the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform and Come Clean, Inc. published a joint Campaign for Health Solutions 2022 reportindicating that several products Sold in the Dollar General Stores of the United States and Canada had been tested positive for toxic chemicals that may present a risk to buying the health.
Now a former employee is continuing the company.
A man from the County of Ocean, New Jersey,I just put a legal action Against Dollar General Corporation, NJ.com reported on May 21. According to the newspaper, 38 years oldEric Sicawas dismissed from his work as a clerk at the bottom to a general dollar at point Pleasant. The SICA - which has a learning disorder and other health problems - continues the company for discrimination, saying that it had been dismissed to be "too slow" in its work.
The prosecution was filed on April 14 before the Ocean City Superior Court, by NJ.com. A spokesman for Dollar General refused to comment on the media, saying that the company does not comment on current disputes.
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The former employee said that he had disclosed his handicaps before being hired.
SICA told her former employers general in dollars during her job interview that he was born with vertebral meningitis, according to the trial. As the Sinai Cedars explains, this condition is "infection of liquid and membranes around thebrain and spinal cord, "Which can damage the brain. In her costume, Sica said that her vertebral meningitis had led her to develop lifelong learning disabilities, hearing loss and a deficiency in vision.
According to NJ.com, the former general employee Dollar General said that he had written on his job request that, following his handicaps, he received social security services, could only work limited. The night because of his vision problems.
He says he was a victim of discrimination and finally dismissed for his disabilities.
SICA was hired by the General Dollar store to Pleasant Point on October 30, 2020, according to NJ.com. But in his costume, he says that he started to be immediately discriminated against by his supervisor based on the disabilities he had documented. "You are too slow. You take too long. It should not take so long," said the manager on several occasions by filling shelves.
Although Sica said that he had not only finished all his tasks and said to her supervisor "that he was doing his best", "he alleged that the supervisor continued to cry out and he Accused of "doing nothing in the store". Finally, SICA said that he complained about the senior treatment department. But instead of taking measures against the supervisor, SICA reported in her trial that Dollar General Management 'dismissed on December 11, 2021.
The former employee alleges that the Société Générale du dollar violated the laws of New Jersey against discrimination, saying that he had been a victim of discrimination against his handicaps, then dismissed in reprisal to complain about the treatment of his employer. With the trial, SICA wants to be reinstated in her work, to receive monetary damages and have supervisors and eaters with general dollar according to anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training.
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