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LOS ANGELES - A former part-time Black Angus Steakhouse server is suing the restaurant chain, alleging she was wrongfully fired in 2023 from the Northridge location for seeking time off to be with her toddler son after the boy's father, her longtime partner, was killed in a motorcycle accident.Melissa Cerda's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit also alleges a violation of the state Labor Code. She seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
While employed there, she was in a longtime relationship with a man who bore her a son in May 2022, but who died in a motorcycle accident in June 2023, leaving the suddenly single mother of a 1-year-old boy 'distraught and overwhelmed,' the suit states.Cerda's grief prevented her from going to her next work shift that was set for July 2, 2023, but she went to work on her next scheduled shift five days later still under duress, the suit states.
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