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It might be implied, but again, what do I know?
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:27:42 +0100
>From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Woman with disability wins suit against Abercrombie and Fitch
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>On Monday 17 August 2009 18:13:14 Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
>> Deri, et. al,
>>
>> According to the original article (in June), Ms Dean wasn't
>> "embarassed" by her prosthesis. She didn't choose to wear a cardigan,
>> she was _instructed_ to wear the sweater. Here's a link to the
>> original post I saw on Disaboom:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/kkbcbx
>>
>> Kendall
>
>Have you sent the correct URL. On that page it says:-
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>"She says that a member of the store's "visual team" then demanded she remove
>the cardigan. Ms. Dean explained that she'd been given special permission to
>wear it due to her prosthesis."
>
>Which implies that SHE asked to wear the cardigan - the company wanted the
>cardigan off - to match the rest of the sales force.
>
>This is confirmed later in the article where it says:-
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>"Afterwards, I telephoned the company's head office where a member of staff asked
>whether I was willing to work in the stockroom until the winter uniform
>arrived."
>
>The winter uniform must have sleeves. So the facts are these:-
>
>a) Dean was told she could not wear a cardigan on the sales floor. (failure of
>"the Look")
>b) If she insisted on wearing a cardigan she could work in the stock room and
>then work on sales in the winter (when permitted by "the look")
>c) If she had removed the cardigan she could have stayed on the sales floor!!
>
>Where in any of this is there disabled discrimination, A&F didn't want her to
>wear the cardigan, rather than instructing her to wear one.
>
>A&F got done for breaking employment law (i.e.not handling the dismissal
>properly - verbal warnings, written warnings, etc - but just "bullied" her).
>
>Cheers
>
>Deri
>
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