McDonald's Transgender Employee Discrimination - Zikerria Bellamy

by Gordon Clark | December 8, 2009 at 09:04 am

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Zikerria Bellamy, a two time McDonald's employee applicant at an Orlando branch, alleges that she was twice refused employment because she is transgendered. Zikerria Bellamy also claims that the branch manager also left a message on her phone that said she would never be hired by the company.

It is alleged that two managers at the branch refused to give Miss Bellamy an interview and an one occasion a manager saw the teenager, who arrived wearing a suit, and laughed at her.

She alleges the message, on 28 July, was left by a McDonald's manager.

In the voicemail message, which has been published on YouTube by her lawyers, an unidentified man uses a gay slur to describe why the fast-food chain restaurant would not hire her.

The Branch has stated that is has a strict policy against any type of discrimination and that the person who left the message was an employee that "acted outside the scope of his authority," said an employee of the restaurant.
The New York based law organization: Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund says that nearly 50% of transgender poeple in the US have faced labour discrimination because of their transgender status.