CHARLESTON — A woman is suing Hiro Enterprises alleging that she was sexually harassed by her supervisor.
B.B. is a 29-year-old mother of three children and worked for Hiro's South Charleston Dairy Bar restaurant as a server and cashier and suffered from sexual harassment by Wayne Bircham, B.B.'s immediate supervisor, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Circuit Court.
B.B. claims Bircham would make vulgar sexual comments about her and insinuated that B.B. should stay late or come to work early to be alone with him if she wanted to keep her job.
On Oct. 23, 2020, B.B. was ordered to clean the restrooms by Bircham and did not want to do so because it was one of the few areas that were not visible on surveillance cameras and while she was doing so, the manager followed her into the restrooms and accused her of not wanting her job bad enough and began to pull her shirt up and touch her.
B.B. claims she was able to get away and the following day, she reported the incident to the owner, who simply told her to let him know if it happened again. B.B. claims she then quit.
B.B. is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is represented by Robert B. Warner and Jack C. Dolance of Warner Law Offices in Charleston.
The case is assigned to Circuit Judge Louis "Duke" Bloom.
Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 21-C-64
