Woman fired over makeup loses case
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published December 29, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- A casino had the right to fire a woman bartender who refused to wear makeup because the company required male workers to be equally well-groomed, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out Darlene Jespersen's sex-discrimination case against Harrah's Entertainment. The court said Harrah's requirement that male bartenders keep their hair short, nails trimmed and otherwise appear neatly groomed was roughly equivalent to the grooming demands made of its female workers.
The Reno casino fired Jespersen in August 2000 after 21 years of highly rated work. She maintained that wearing makeup should be a personal choice, unrelated to her job performance.
Make-up is not *grooming*. Make-up is an *accessory*. I think they just wanted to get the *21 year veteran* out of the biz and replace her with some mammoth-chest-bimbo.
ReplyDeleteA casino is just a bank that takes deposits and no withdrawls.
Makeup is (among other things) colored animal fat. Mmmmm...lard. And they've taken to putting in extra-tasty items like sheep placentas...as if that's supposed to make us feel BETTER about wearing it, somehow.
ReplyDeleteNever wear the stuff, myself--and I'll bet when I'm 80, I'll have way better skin than my makeup-slathering cousins, for example. Cocoa butter--that's the stuff. (Though it did take me a while to get past the fact that I chronically smell like dessert...)