July 29, 2024
A Panera franchisee and a former employee alerted a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that they've agreed to resolve the ex-worker's suit claiming she was harassed out of her job when she disclosed that she practiced neopaganism.
April 19, 2022
A Pittsburgh federal judge will hold a jury trial solely to determine whether a former Panera Bread employee had signed an arbitration agreement that would cover her claim that she was discriminated against for her neo-pagan beliefs, or if a manager had signed the documents on her behalf.
June 21, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge Monday rejected a Panera Bread franchisee's push to force an ex-employee to arbitrate her claims that she was harassed for her neopaganist religious beliefs, saying it wasn't clear she even knew an arbitration agreement existed.
June 14, 2021
A former Panera Bread employee who claims that Christian co-workers discriminated against her pagan religious beliefs told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that she couldn't have personally signed an arbitration agreement because she was already on a bus to her home at the time a manager submitted the paperwork.
May 25, 2021
An arbitrator should hear a former Pittsburgh-area Panera Bread employee's claim that she faced discrimination from her Christian co-workers after revealing that she practiced a form of neo-paganism, attorneys for the restaurant told a Pennsylvania federal court.