Cheesecake Factory to pay $15,000 to fired deaf dishwasher

SEATTLE (AP) — The Cheesecake Factory restaurant chain has agreed to pay $15,000 to settle a federal complaint that it failed to provide a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for a deaf part-time dishwasher at its downtown Seattle location. Under the settlement, announced Thursday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Calabasas Hills, […]