Comments about ‘Tepanyaki will pay $30,000 settlement’

Was their salad dressing recipe. The best dressing ever. Anyone know where I can get that recipe?

Their actions, had this case not been treated as it has, could have made the treatment of pregnancy into one of a disability...

It is not, it is an ability... an ability to create.

Their HR should have read the ADA

Never thought this would be an argument in Utah

ill never visit this restaurant for the way they acted by firing this pregnant girl. they know thats wrong to do and just lost my business

I don't like Utah's laws to begin with. We are a right to hire but more of a right to fire state. I am glad to see that this business must pay up.

Who are the owners of this restaurant? They should be named in the story.

SHE committed the bad act here. They hired her expecting to get an employee that would WORK.

What they got was someone who just after starting will have to take a ton of time off. Who will run up their health insurance premiums. Who will take FMLA leave while the employer is stuck paying for her health insurance when she hasn't even contributed anything to their business.

This girl scammed them.

"Who will take FMLA leave while the employer is stuck paying for her health insurance when she hasn't even contributed anything to their business."

The employer is not required to pay premiums for an employee out on FMLA. For a company their size it is unlikely that her pregnancy will have any real effect on the company premiums. Even if so, that is a problem with the industry, not the employee.

Last point, the mentality that would criticize this employee for running up health ins. premiums through pregnancy, is the same voice that would also criticize this woman for not working, getting pregnant, and then collecting Government Assistance.
This of course is a setup for failure. It should also be noted that at the bottom of the article this employer is notorious for actually "sticking it" to the employees by not paying fair wages, or complying with federal wage laws. So, I am not certain that the effects of health insurance premiums on a succesfull restraunt chain (albeit, questionably so) are germane. They seem to have a history of gauging the employees.