'Hire White Beauty People,' Hey?

[The Straight Story]

'Hire White Beauty People,' Hey?

MANHATTAN (CN) - A longtime manager sued Sunglass Hut, claiming it fired him for objecting to an order "to hire white beauty people" for the SoHo store, because "black and Hispanic employees ... were not a good look for the store."

Pavolo Venezia sued Luxottica Retail North America and Sunglass Hut Trading LLC, in Federal Court. The businesses are the only defendants.

Venezia says in the complaint that he worked for the defendants for 18 years, most recently as manager of its store on Spring Street in New York City's SoHo neighborhood.

He claims things changed "when Debbie Gidiull became his boss," and the company "revamped its face of its most popular store by getting rid of older employees, black and Hispanic minority employees."

Venezia claims that he and the bosses "did not see eye to eye with this new directive and hiring policies and thus resulted in friction over said issues."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/18/59486.htm

[Heather MC]

1. I worked for a small retail store once

I was told to watch the black kids because they steal. Funny thing, the three months that I worked in that mall, mostly white people were caught stealing.

Retail is very Racist I am not surprized by this

[Journeyman]

2. I remember when Circuit City got rid of its older employees, in favor of minimum wage workers. . .

the company went out of business shortly thereafter.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Not only that...

They fired the people who actually knew the products and inform the customer about the pros/cons and instead had the whole place just run by cashiers...

[SomethingFishy]

4. Exactly.. here you have an 18 year employee

that they are going to replace with a rookie cashier.. It's not too bright..