Gentile-Riaz v. Samo Thraki, LLC (2025)

Citation: Gentile-Riaz v. Samo Thraki, LLC (2025)
Parent Document: Gentile-Riaz v. Samo Thraki, LLC (2025)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 2025-12-16
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10758261/gentile-riaz-v-samo-thraki-llc/ ↗

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complaints that are considered ‘‘related to’’ the federal
       act. Specifically, it provides: ‘‘(a) . . . The range of
       complaints ‘related to’ the Act is commensurate with
       the broad remedial purposes of this legislation and the
       sweeping scope of its application, which entails the full
       extent of the commerce power. . . . (b) Complaints
       registered with other Federal agencies which have the
       authority to regulate or investigate occupational safety
       and health conditions are complaints ‘related to’ this
       Act. Likewise, complaints made to State or local agen-
       cies regarding occupational safety and health condi-
       tions would be ‘related to’ the Act. Such complaints,
       however, must relate to conditions at the workplace,
       as distinguished from complaints touching only upon
       general public safety and health. . . .’’ (Emphasis
       added.) 29 C.F.R. § 1977.9 (a) and (b) (2024).
          With this statutory and regulatory background in
       mind, we turn to the plaintiff’s health district complaint.
       The plaintiff began her complaint by stating that she
       was ‘‘concerned for people’s health.’’ Her complaints
       included: (1) lack of a certified safety food operator;
       (2) no grease trap causing grease to run into the sewer;
       (3) no handwashing sink and direction to reuse gloves,
       which the plaintiff stated was a concern of hers to ‘‘see
       to it that no one gets ill’’; (4) rats and/or mice have
       eaten into oil bottles and the oil was not thrown away
       but rather poured into another receptacle; (5) rats and/
       or mice have eaten into spaghetti and only the broken
       pieces were thrown away, however, ‘‘[o]nly once have
       they thrown the spaghetti away and that was only
       because [the plaintiff] kept explaining how mice/rats
       carry diseases and GOD forbid if someone were to get
       sick’’; (6) smoking cigarettes in the restaurant and
       kitchen and that the plaintiff has ‘‘found ashes on the
       counters and . . . even found cigarette ashes on one
       of the pizzas [she] pulled out of the walk in to sauce’’;
       (7) no one washes their hands after smoking with the
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