Lawsuit Alleges Days Inn Instructed Employees to Flip a Mattress that Somebody Had Died On Rather Than Throw It Out

The Tampa Bay Times reports that a Tampa, Florida, Days Inn is facing a lawsuit alleging the hotel discriminated against its employees as well as subjected them to some seriously gross and suspect stuff. One plaintiff named Charlena Williams alleged in an OSHA complaint that she was, "forced to clean a hotel room where a body was found" and that "the hotel did not use proper health and safety measures to clean blood, vomit and other fluids from the room before booking new guests to stay there."

Perhaps most horrifyingly, Williams claims that, "Instead of replacing the mattress where the body was found, she was instructed just to flip it over."

Later, the company was forced to pay OSHA fines in part because of citations that were, the Tampa Bay Times says, "related to having employees handle 'contaminated' linens and towels, and failing to make hepatitis B vaccines available to employees who were exposed to the body."

On the whole, the lawsuit doesn't paint the owner of the Days Inn franchise, Jamil Kassim, as anyone's idea of the world's greatest boss. The Tampa Bay Times says that his former employees have also accused him of "(using) racial slurs to describe them." The paper also says the suit states that, "managers at the hotel told the employees they were going to be fired based on their race. They were all fired during the summer of last year."

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