Post by ck4829 on Dec 29, 2016 18:26:49 GMT
Former Versace Employee Says Store Used Code to Bring Attention to Black Customers
Versace is being accused of racial profiling.
Versace is coming under fire for a racist practice that one former employee claims he was taught to abide by when he was hired at a Versace retail store in Pleasanton, Calif.
The former clerk is suing Versace over racial profiling, according to Women’s Wear Daily. In a confidential moment while being trained for his new role, Christopher Sampiro, 23, was told about the D410 Code. The code is meant to be used while ringing up black clothing at the register, but Versace allegedly also asks its workers to speak the code aloud “in a casual manner” to warn colleagues that a black person has entered the store.
It just so happens that Sampiro is a quarter African-American, a detail his employers did not know until he made them aware of it. And soon after he did, he was fired. Now the former employee has filed a 30-page lawsuit against Versace, according to the Huffington Post. In it, he claims he was told he was fired because “he didn’t understand luxury” and didn’t know “the luxury life,” according to the New York Daily News. But the timing was too coincidental: just weeks after he was hired in September and his revelation that he was biracial shortly thereafter.
Sampiro says that once he told his employers he was partially black, “he was treated differently and that he did not receive ‘legitimate training.'” The plaintiff is seeking class-action status for the complaint, according to WWD, and “alleges wrongful termination and failure to prevent discrimination along with seven other counts.” According to the publication, the suit alleges he did not receive all the pay he was owed and was denied breaks. According to the Daily News, “The suit was filed on the worker’s own behalf as well as others ‘similarly situated and the general public.'”
www.yahoo.com/style/former-versace-employee-says-store-had-code-for-black-customers-033540423.html
Versace is being accused of racial profiling.
Versace is coming under fire for a racist practice that one former employee claims he was taught to abide by when he was hired at a Versace retail store in Pleasanton, Calif.
The former clerk is suing Versace over racial profiling, according to Women’s Wear Daily. In a confidential moment while being trained for his new role, Christopher Sampiro, 23, was told about the D410 Code. The code is meant to be used while ringing up black clothing at the register, but Versace allegedly also asks its workers to speak the code aloud “in a casual manner” to warn colleagues that a black person has entered the store.
It just so happens that Sampiro is a quarter African-American, a detail his employers did not know until he made them aware of it. And soon after he did, he was fired. Now the former employee has filed a 30-page lawsuit against Versace, according to the Huffington Post. In it, he claims he was told he was fired because “he didn’t understand luxury” and didn’t know “the luxury life,” according to the New York Daily News. But the timing was too coincidental: just weeks after he was hired in September and his revelation that he was biracial shortly thereafter.
Sampiro says that once he told his employers he was partially black, “he was treated differently and that he did not receive ‘legitimate training.'” The plaintiff is seeking class-action status for the complaint, according to WWD, and “alleges wrongful termination and failure to prevent discrimination along with seven other counts.” According to the publication, the suit alleges he did not receive all the pay he was owed and was denied breaks. According to the Daily News, “The suit was filed on the worker’s own behalf as well as others ‘similarly situated and the general public.'”
www.yahoo.com/style/former-versace-employee-says-store-had-code-for-black-customers-033540423.html