June 28, 2009
Abercrombie & Fitch Discovers Employee’s Disability — Moves her to Stock Room
As reported in the U.K. Daily Mail, apparently, an individual with a disability does not fit the clean cut American image of A&F. It was reported that in the London store, a woman with a prosthetic arm was “discovered” by her supervisor and shuffled off the floor into the back stock room to work.
The employee, a 22 year old law school student, is now suing A&F for discrimination stating that her disability did not fit in with A&F’s public image concerns. She claims that she was informed that she broke the strict “Look” policy which is a 45-page manual that informs employees how they are to present themselves to the public.
According to Zeldaily, since filing her lawsuit, A&F have offered her approximately $10,000, but she has turned down that offer. She stated if she accepted their offer, she would not be able to talk about it. As a volunteer for an organization working with children with limb disabilities, she feels she needs to move forward so that hopefully something as blatantly discriminating as this does not happen to others in the future.
It was just four years ago that A&F lost a $25 million discrimination suit brought by nine former employees who were told they did not meet the “look” because they were ethnic and forced to work in the stockroom as well.
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