SAGINAW (1080 KRLD) - A popular North Texas fast-food chain is in damage control mode after one of its managers sent a worker home for wearing a hijab.
On Monday, the manager of the Chicken Express store on Blue Mound Rd. in Saginaw told Stefanae Coleman, 22, to remove her hijab since it did not conform with the restaurant's uniform guidelines.
Coleman, who also goes by Folake Adebola, recorded the confrontation on her cell phone and posted the video to Twitter.
An attorney for Chicken E tells KRLD that the unnamed manager's decision to send her home was made due to a lack of training and that he has been reprimanded.
Attorney Rhett Warren says the restaurant issued an apology to Coleman and paid her for the hours that she missed.
Warren says the franchisee is working with Coleman and the DFW chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to develop diversity training for employees.
Coleman is still employed at the restaurant.
