Posted on 06/27/2012 9:25:47 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
I do not know Courtney Scaramella’s faith life. But I applaud the 23-year-old waitress for taking a stand against the owner and general manager of the Los Angeles sports bar where she worked when they decided to sex up the uniforms worn by female employees.
When she was hired by the sports bar nearly five years ago, Courtney and her fellow female employees wore a uniform of shirt and pants. But that changed recently, when the ownership ordered waitresses to wear tiny little school-girl skirts.
Courtney went so far as to try on the skirt, but the petite young woman found she couldn’t bend – even a little – without exposing herself. Her biggest fear was that some liquored up customer would pull off her skirt – which was fastened at the waist by mere Velcro – either by accident or intention.
After submitting a written complaint back in January, Courtney was no longer required to squeeze into an itty-bit skirt sized for a pre-teen girl. However, she contends, her hours were cut, and her income diminished.
Finally, management decided to rid themselves of their more-modest-than-thou waitress, according to Courtney. So now she’s fighting back with a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment, wrongful termination and unpaid wages.
Now, had young Courtney been a longtime employee of one of those so-called “breastaurants,” establishments that put well-endowed, underdressed waitresses on display for lustful male customers, I would have little sympathy for her.
Because she would have known what she was getting herself into when she took the unwholesome job.
But Courtney never tried to trade on her bodily assets. She passed up Hooters, Titled Kilt, Twin Peaks, Mugs and Jugs and other such beastaurants to take a waitress position at a sports bar where the required attire was not a tight-fitting tank top and short shorts, or plaid bra and matching tiny plaid skirt, but a less provocative shirt and pants.
It took great courage for young Courtney to refuse to accept the degrading new un-dress code the managers of her sports bar instituted.
Especially, in an economy in which most are inclined to hold on to even the most disagreeable job rather than risk joining the ranks of the out-of-work.
Again, I do not know her faith life. But I do know an act of Godliness when I see it.
1 Corinthians 6:1.
I am not in favor of the law. Nor do I consider the termination "wrongful" based on the principle. I am also for property rights and the right of business owners to run their businesses as they see fit, but those who do not fault the law and instead fault the waitress are missing the point.
The truth is that property rights in this country have been trampled with the help of judges appointed by Republican presidents. The idiot Scalia thinks that growing your own plants affects interstate commerce and so the government should control gardening activities.
I won't give them that much credit. My guess is they didn't lay her off so as to avoid having their EDD policy premium increased. They figured they could just reduce her hours until she voluntarily left.
Legal protections don’t apply on priv prop? I said that? Why are you attacking an argument that I did not make?
If I shoot you on my priv prop because I don’t like the way you comb your hair, I suspect that legal protections would come into play.
If I decide to change my priv prop from a business that sells beer and chicken wings to one that sells books, I don’t need the permission of my waitresses to do so.
Nor do I need their permission to change the lighting, the uniforms, the hours, the pay, the flooring, the tablecloths, or anything else.
she did not notice the uniform they used to use?
there are a host of cases where the “sexy waitress” uniform was upheld.
Unless an employment contract has a specified term (the military is the primary such example), employment is at will on both sides. An employee can quit without notice, demand a change in pay or working conditions, or otherwise insist on renegotiating or terminating the relationship without notice, although two weeks notice is polite and traditional. Would you eliminate that option?
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That happened to a neighbor of ours (salesman). He was even bringing in new clients, but they were “shifted” over to another guy that had been with the company for years and years. It’s pretty tough when management has you in the cross hairs for whatever reason.
One of my old man’s words of advice was to never sue someone. I don’t think that is ALWAYS the case, but his point was if you sue your employer, who will want to hire you next? If you sue your supplier, who will want to be your next supplier, etc.
I already hit it ...
Best comment on the thread.
As for me, I ma no longer restrained by specious tolerance. Tolerating evil degredation of my culture is not tolerance, it is spiritual suicide. Since the rejection of spiritual responsibility seems to have become 'unfashionable' in our culture, the degenerates have made huge strides in degenerating the society. Think about it ...
As for me, I am no longer restrained by specious tolerance. Tolerating evil degredation of my culture is not tolerance, it is spiritual suicide. Since the rejection of spiritual responsibility seems to have become 'unfashionable' in our culture, the degenerates have made huge strides in degenerating the society. Think about it ...
Of course not. Did I give the impression I would?
I am an employer. I hope I am successfully balancing my business's needs with consideration for my employees I always hoped for from those who've employed me in the past. This employer's problems stem from his apparent unwillingness to do so.
I see a huge difference between a legal obligation and a moral obligation. The employer should have no legal obligation to keep a waitress beyond when she is wanted, and it's the legal obligation that matters in court.
Of course, and we shall see how a court rules.
While I applaude her for NOT wearing the new outfit, I disagree with her decision to sue.
She does not have a ‘right’ to work there.
Businesses change all the time. If they decided to change INTO a hooter franchise, what would she have done? Sue them to force them not to?
Kudos for holding onto her morals, but she needs a lesson in private property, and I am available to give her one any time at all~!!!!!!!!!!
This is up a that show right now? That's just awful... I will go see it this weekend and make a full report...
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