Monday, June 15, 2009

UK: Muslim cocktail waitress awarded $4,700 for being made to wear "indecent" dress

What was a pious Muslim doing working as a cocktail waitress, anyway? And what did she expect to wear inside a bar -- a burqa? Not coincidentally, she dresses more "indecently" than she was asked to in the bar on her Facebook page -- indicating that this was all about intimidating the dhimmis, and of course, it worked. Absurd Brittania Alert: "Muslim cocktail waitress gets £3,000 for sexual harassment after bar ordered her to wear 'indecent' dress," from the Daily Mail, June 15

A Muslim cocktail waitress who quit after refusing to wear a bright red dress for work has won almost £3,000 in compensation for sexual harassment.

Fata Lemes, 33, was handed the payout even though a tribunal rejected her claim that the dress was 'sexually revealing and indecent'.

It concluded the Bosnian Muslim 'holds views about modesty and decency which some might think unusual in Britain in the 21st century'.

But it accepted that Miss Lemes genuinely believed that the short, low-cut dress was 'disgusting' and made her look 'like a prostitute'.

Bosses at the Rocket bar in London's Mayfair should have made allowance for her feelings and their insistence that she wear the dress amounted to sexual harassment, the tribunal ruled.

The panel at Central London Employment Tribunal found that Miss Lemes overstated her trauma at being asked to wear the sleeveless dress that was open at the back.

It also rejected Miss Lemes' claim that she was left with no choice but to walk out of her job after just eight days.

It branded her compensation claim of £20,000 including £17,500 for hurt feelings as 'manifestly absurd'.

But it awarded her £2,919.95 for hurt feelings and loss of earnings.

Miss Lemes told the tribunal that she 'might as well be naked' in the dress, adding: 'I was brought up a Muslim and am not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes.'

A photo of Miss Lemes on Facebook, however, shows her wearing a low cut T-shirt revealing her cleavage....

Miss Lemes' lawyer Joe Sykes asked the restaurant's general manager Danila Bodei: 'The reason for choosing the colour red was to indicate that the waitresses were sexually available, wasn't it?'

She replied: 'No, it was just the colour to match the bar.'

This is happening here in Phoenix with a muslim male. He knew he had to be clean shaven, grew beard anyway. The Sherrif fired him and he is suing.

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