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Muslim cocktail waitress wins damages over skimpy outfit(24 June 2009 15:40)
A Muslim cocktail waitress has won damages from a London bar owner after refusing to wear a skimpy uniform.
Fata Lemes resigned from her job at the Rocket Bar in Mayfair when she was asked to wear a red dress which she claimed made her look like a prostitute. She later took the bar’s owners, restaurant group Spring & Greene, to a tribunal, and has now won £2,919.95 in compensation for hurt feelings and loss of earnings.
Lemes claimed £20,000, including £17,500 for hurt feelings, but a panel at Central London Employment Tribunal found that she had overstated the trauma caused by being asked to wear the sleeveless dress.
They also rejected her claims that she was left with no choice but to resign, but concluded that her employers’ insistence that she wear the dress amounted to sexual harassment.
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