Woman who "dresses up too much like a man" gets fired

A 32-year-old woman from Long Island, New York, USA, filed a lawsuit for discrimination against a timeshare company that would have referred her for "s & D". Dress too much like a man. "

Chakia Harvell is claiming $ 1.5 million (about 79.8 million pesos) from Wyndham Vacation Ownership, as indicated by the New York Post yesterday, 4 November. The company has not yet issued a statement on this subject.

Harvell said that its leaders, knowing that technical difficulties prevented it from connecting to an iPad company, had dismissed it for alleged delay. She said however that her delay was not the real reason for her dismissal – the company would have had a problem with her "non-feminine" clothes.

Harvell, who claimed to be a lesbian, recalled that during her job interview, a manager allowed her to wear a tie, blazer and trousers to the office, the report said. But when she started working in the office, a human resources officer took her aside to discuss her clothes.

"She would just mention," Did you come back to the guidelines regarding the dress code? "," Harvell reportedly said. "And the next day, she said," I've sent the e-mail again, did you get to the dress code? "

The Human Resources Officer stated that the Harvell office set was not professional. Harvell was invited to "watch the ladies" from the company's sales department, who "uniformly wore dresses or high-heeled skirts".

"It made me feel bad, to the point where I thought I could not afford to change myself into something I am not," she said in the report. . "People should understand that everyone is different. Do not look at how I dress, because it's a little different from you, and judge me and think I can not play. " Kate Matriano /JB

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