UK: Waitress fired for not wearing revealing dress
A Muslim cocktail waitress has claimed she was sacked for refusing to wear a 'sexually revealing' red dress for work.
Fata Lemes said she was pestered for sex by customers at Mayfair's Rocket bar and restaurant.
Miss Lemes, 33, alleged bosses ran Rocket 'like a sex club' and allowed clients to think waitresses 'could be treated as prostitutes'.
The strawberry blonde told a tribunal that on only her second shift two guests told her they were looking for a blonde 'for one or more nights'.
Miss Lemes, of Camden, initially wore loose-fitting black clothes, but a week into the job she was ordered to wear a tight bright red dress that had a plunging neckline and was open at the back.
She tried on the outfit and found it was 'physically revealing and openly sexual'. She said it made her look like a sex club hostess.
Miss Lemes told Central London Employment Tribunal: 'It was indecent. If you put this dress on, you might as well be naked. Everything finishes in the middle at the chest. It is open at the front and back. I did not want men looking at my body.
'I was brought up a Muslim, and am not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes.'
She refused to wear it and claims she was immediately fired.
Miss Lemes, a Bosnian Muslim, is suing restaurant group Spring&Greene, which owns the Rocket chain, for sexual harassment and sex discrimination.
She is claiming £20,000 for injury to feelings and lost earnings. The firm denies her claims.
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Source: Daily Mail (English)
A Muslim cocktail waitress has claimed she was sacked for refusing to wear a 'sexually revealing' red dress for work.
Fata Lemes said she was pestered for sex by customers at Mayfair's Rocket bar and restaurant.
Miss Lemes, 33, alleged bosses ran Rocket 'like a sex club' and allowed clients to think waitresses 'could be treated as prostitutes'.
The strawberry blonde told a tribunal that on only her second shift two guests told her they were looking for a blonde 'for one or more nights'.
Miss Lemes, of Camden, initially wore loose-fitting black clothes, but a week into the job she was ordered to wear a tight bright red dress that had a plunging neckline and was open at the back.
She tried on the outfit and found it was 'physically revealing and openly sexual'. She said it made her look like a sex club hostess.
Miss Lemes told Central London Employment Tribunal: 'It was indecent. If you put this dress on, you might as well be naked. Everything finishes in the middle at the chest. It is open at the front and back. I did not want men looking at my body.
'I was brought up a Muslim, and am not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes.'
She refused to wear it and claims she was immediately fired.
Miss Lemes, a Bosnian Muslim, is suing restaurant group Spring&Greene, which owns the Rocket chain, for sexual harassment and sex discrimination.
She is claiming £20,000 for injury to feelings and lost earnings. The firm denies her claims.
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Source: Daily Mail (English)
