{"id":1362,"date":"2024-06-17T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ma-court-finds-dunkin-donuts-franchise-could-be-liable-for-workers-actions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:28:08","slug":"ma-court-finds-dunkin-donuts-franchise-could-be-liable-for-workers-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ma-court-finds-dunkin-donuts-franchise-could-be-liable-for-workers-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma. Court Finds Dunkin&#8217; Donuts Franchise Could Be Liable for Worker&#8217;s Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ma. Court Finds Dunkin&#8217; Donuts Franchise Could Be Liable for Worker&#8217;s Actions &#8211; A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel reinstated a portion of a customer\u2019s claims to proceed against a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts franchise, finding the corporate defendants could be held vicariously liable for an employee\u2019s use of a racial epithet following a dispute over a delayed food order.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff, Gary Pettiford, sued\u00a0Worcester Donuts, doing business as Dunkin\u2019 Donuts at Yankee Gas Station, among other\u00a0corporate entities and officers,\u00a0after he was called\u00a0the racial slur from an employee who he claims intentionally delayed making his food because he is a Black man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma. Court Finds Dunkin&#8217; Donuts Franchise Could Be Liable for Worker&#8217;s Actions &#8211; A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel reinstated a portion of a customer\u2019s claims to proceed against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[651,143,1938,1937,674,1939,675,1985,499],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-actions","tag-court","tag-donuts","tag-dunkin","tag-finds","tag-franchise","tag-liable","tag-ma-court-finds-dunkin-donuts-franchise-could-be-liable-for-workers-actions","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}