A former employee has filed a federal lawsuit, with the Idaho Human Rights Commission’s blessing, against Red Robin restaurants claiming wrongful termination after she complained about alleged racist comments made by her boss. In her lawsuit, Stacie Ward alleges a boss responded to her attempts to hire a black man at the Coeur d’Alene burger restaurant with a statement using a racial epithet. The man was not hired. Ward also alleges in her lawsuit that the restaurant fired a black man, the only person of color ever employed in the bar there, for wearing his headphones at work. That conduct typically would merit only a warning, the lawsuit said/Kip Hill, SR. More here.