A longtime McDonald’s employee who rose from janitor to store manager and alleges she was wrongfully terminated in 2023 because of disability issues is fighting to keep a defamation claim as part of her lawsuit.
Katherine Vivanco’s Los Angeles Superior Court complaint includes the defamation claim because she contends that false allegations about her in the workplace were used as pretextual reasons to fire her. One of those allegedly untrue assertions against Vivanco was that she told the general manager she replaced at the Sylmar store she once had sex with her boyfriend in a McDonald’s parking lot and had also engaged in atypical sex.
The former general manager also claimed he was offended because he is gay and believed Vivanco should not have shared such sexual details with him, according to Vivanco’s court papers filed Monday with Judge Jerrold Abeles in opposition to McDonald’s anti-SLAPP motion…