A pregnant cook at Panda Express alleged that a manager at her Latest Jersey location ordered her to have an abortion and physically assaulted her after she told him she was going to have a baby, according to the lawsuit.
Romerian Logan, 19, claimed her ordeal got here by the hands of BiQing Liu, the overseer of a Chinese food franchise positioned in Jersey City’s Newport Center mall, according to a lawsuit filed last week in state court.
Logan also accused Panda Express’s supervisors of ignoring her grievance.
The expectant mother, who was 18 on the time, gave Liu the excellent news last July.
But her boss apparently didn’t share the identical joy and “began making negative comments … about her pregnancy and implying it [she] to have an abortion,” according to the court documents.
The bewildered cook, who had worked at this Panda Express since 2019, ignored the recommendation.
But three months later, Liu “physically attacked [Logan] by physically stopping her from leaving her workplace after her shift,” the court documents claimed.
Logan “reported the incident to Human Resources but nothing was done to help her,” according to court records.
She claimed her $19.35-an-hour job was getting worse and worse.
Logan was assigned to “scrubbing” and other manual jobs that she was “unable to do due to pregnancy,” according to court records.
Logan told The Post she was terminated by the corporate last December – 4 months before her baby boy was born in April.
A representative of a Panda Express store in Jersey City told The Post that Liu has been moved to one other Panda Express location in Latest York.
No further information provided.
The favored fast food chain has 2,300 locations across the USA, many on college campuses, and employs 47,000 people.
The lawsuit, which named several co-defendants including “individuals” and “business entities currently unidentified”, alleged that Panda Express knew Liu was engaging in “continuous patterns of physical and emotional harassment”.
Logan accused the network of negligent hiring, negligent supervision and training, creating a hostile work environment and recklessness, according to court documents.
The Post asked Logan and Panda Express for comment.
Liu was approached for comment via his LinkedIn profile.