Deri,
But in many cases, sales staff in the US get a commission on what they
sell. If she were eligible for commission as sales staff and was moved to
the stockroom, that would definitely be discriminatory. It may be that the
company's concern with their "image" needs to be broadened to include
people who have physical differences.
Some of the comments to the article in the Mail reflected the same attitude
you seem to be stating - that the company has the right to make whatever
hiring or staffing decisions it feels are appropriate to fit
their "business model/brand image." Could the company decide that people of
African or Arabic origin didn't meet their "brand image" and keep them off
the sales floor, or refuse to hire them at all?
As far as Cerri Burnell's situation, if she did send in the complaints
herself, it seems to have been a fairly good career move ;-{)} but if she
didn't, in the UK, which seems to be much more pro-active regarding
disability awareness, is there still an active (institutional v individual)
bias against people with disabilities. I'll admit I'm being intentionally
obtuse in hopes of generating a little discussion.
First it was the winter doldrums, now is it the summer blahs? Or have
Facebook/Mafia Wars and MySpace and it's apps pulled too many away from
other online communities?
On Jun 23, 2009 6:16pm, Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:06:27 Kendall D. Corbett wrote:
> > I was banished to the stockroom, says disabled shop girl now suing
> > Abercrombie & Fitch for discrimination
> >
> > A disabled law student is suing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch for
> > discrimination, claiming it made her work in a stockroom because her
> > prosthetic arm didn't fit its public image.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192674/I-banished-stockroom-says-d
> >isabled-shop-girl-suing-Abercrombie--Fitch-discrimination.html
> >
> > The reaction to BBC Children's program host Cerrie Burnell in February
> was
> > eerily similar. Does Abercrombie and Fitch feel that they were
> > given "permission" to react the way they did by the situation with Ms.
> > Burnell?
> >
> > In the US, this would be a violation of the ADA. Does Britain have
> similar
> > legislation?
> >
> > http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6946286&page=1
> >
> > If an attractive young woman with an amputation is too "ugly" to work on
> > the retail floor of a major store, what does that tell the rest of the
> > British population with disabilities? Deri, your input is requested
> >
> Hi, the first one is a story about an American Company obsessed with its
> own
> "brand style". Its not really a disability story, anyone without "the
> look"
> gets put in the "back room"!! She's suing under employment discrimination
> law
> (covers age, sex, race, disability, etc.). Whether she wins or not will
> probably depend on her contract of employment. Its likely that all are
> employed as "shop staff" and paid the same salary, it would then be down
> to
> management to allocate tasks (the one's with "the look" getting the front
> of
> shop jobs). So long as the grades & salaries are the same it would be
> difficult
> to show any discrimination.
> The BBC initially received 9 complaints about the amputee presenter, it
> then
> became a media "story". The BBC completely ignored the complaints, in
> fact I
> have seen her far more on prime time tv recently - it certainly hasn't
> harmed
> her career (wonder if she sent in the "complaints" herself!!).
> Cheers
> Deri
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