SAN FRANCISCO - a worker of the former store for & Abercrombie Fitch Co. continued the retailer of clothing in court Federal Monday, saying that she was terminated illegally after refusing to remove her Islamic headscarf while on the job.
Hani Khan, said that a manager at the company store Hollister Co. at the Hillsdale Mall in San Mateo hired while she was wearing her hijab. The Manager said it's OK to wear as long as it was in the colours of the company, said Khan.
Four months later, the 20 - year - old said that a district manager and human resources manager asked if she could remove the hijab while working, and she was suspended and then drawn for refusing to do so.
This is the last employment discrimination charges against the so-called "look political, that critics say average images of mostly white people, youth sports research." The company based in New Albany, Ohio said that it tolerates no discrimination.
However, Abercrombie has been the target of numerous lawsuits, discrimination, including a federal class action by black, Hispanic and Asian employees and job seekers who was set to 40 million in 2004. The company admitted no wrongdoing, even if it was forced to implement new programs and policies aimed at increasing diversity.
"Growing up in this country where the Bill of rights guarantees freedom of religion, I felt disappointed," Khan, now a student studying political science, told a press conference. "This case is on the principles, the right to be able to freely express your religion and be able to work in this country."
Abercrombie defended his record in a comment to The Associated Press, saying diversity in its stores "goes far beyond the diversity of the population of the United States."
"We comply with the law regarding reasonable religious accommodation, and we will continue to do so, said Rocky Robbins, General Counsel of the company." "" "We are convinced that when the case is heard, a jury will find that we have fully complied with the law."
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco comes after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has decided, in September, that Khan was dismissed illegally. Continuation of the Khan was filed in conjunction with the continuation of the EEOC.
It is not the first time, the company was charged with discrimination against Muslim women on the wearing of the veil.
In 2009, Samantha Elauf, aged 17 at the time, filed a federal lawsuit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alleging that the company he rejected a job because she wore a hijab.
The Commission filed an action for the same reason, saying that the company has denied working at a woman wearing hijab applied for a position of seeding in 2008 in an Abercrombie Kids store at the great Mall in Milpitas, California.
Attorney for Khan, said his client is looking for Abercrombie to modify its "look policy" to allow religious scarves be worn by employees and damages not specified. The lawsuit alleged violations of federal and State civil rights and employment laws.
"Abercrombie is proud of requiring what he called a natural classic American style." "But there is nothing American about discrimination against an individual because of their religion," said Araceli Martinez-Olguin, a Prosecutor with the Centre for Legal Aid Society-employment.
"Such a policy of control cannot be square with our common values." "No worker should have to choose between their religion and their employment".
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