Disabled Abercrombie & Fitch Employee Sues for Discrimination
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Where are all the beautiful people? Must be in the back room. Photo: Getty Images
Riam Dean, who has a prosthetic left arm, explained to a judge that once hired in London's flagship A&F location, she was told she did not pass the "look policy" and supervisors "hid" her in the storeroom.
Dean states she was originally told she could wear a cardigan to cover the area where the prosthetic attached to her natural arm, but was later told "she could not work on the sales floor unless she took off the cardigan, as she was breaking the company's 'look policy.'" The 20-year-old law student then worked in the back room.
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