Arianna Rodriguez has sued In-N-Out Burgers in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the company pushed her out after she asked for Sundays off to attend church. The complaint says the dispute ended with her firing on July 3, after months in which she says her requests for religious accommodation were ignored and then punished.
Rodriguez’s lawsuit lands now because it turns an ordinary scheduling dispute into a courtroom test of how far an employer must go to accommodate faith. She says she told In-N-Out she was unavailable on Sundays because of church attendance, and that she later raised concerns about religious discrimination with management and HR after the issue escalated.
Her account is specific. Rodriguez says she started as an hourly cook at the Long Beach location on East Carson Street in August 2021 and earned $25.50 an hour on part-time shifts. The complaint says she kept a clean disciplinary record for nearly five years before a new manager took over around October 2025 and a disciplinary write-up followed. From there, the sequence moved fast: she was suspended on June 24 after an incident involving food she says she understood to be waste under workplace practices she had seen before, then fired on July 3.
That is where the case sharpens. Rodriguez says the June discipline and the firing were tied to her religious accommodation requests. In-N-Out, by contrast, described the termination as a policy violation after a food-related incident. The complaint does not spell out the exact rule the company says she broke, leaving the central dispute unresolved: whether this was a workplace misconduct case that happened to involve a faith-observant employee, or a religious discrimination case dressed up as discipline.
Rodriguez is seeking damages for religious discrimination, retaliation, hostile work environment, wrongful termination, unpaid final wages and emotional distress, along with punitive damages and possibly reinstatement or rehiring. The case now moves into Los Angeles Superior Court with one question hanging over it: whether the discipline that ended her job was truly about food handling, or about her request to keep Sundays for church.
