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Article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-24026228<\/a><\/p>\n Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) was found in yet another discrimination dispute for firing a Muslim employee for wearing her headscarf, claiming it would cause \u201cundue hardship\u201d to accommodate her. While initially allowing her to wear her headscarf in Hollister (A&F\u2019s surf-inspired clothing label) colors, Ms Hani Khan was suspended for refusing to take off her covering and was soon later fired for \u201crefusing to comply\u201d. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on behalf of Khan and found that the brand had not in fact faced any issues in sales in having to accommodate Khan and faced \u201cdeviation from its \u2018look policy\u2019 \u201c.<\/p>\n This comes after the scandal A&F faced earlier this year where CEO Mike Jeffries had to apologize after an article for remarks he made in 2006 about the company\u2019s exclusionary marketing strategy in avoidance of \u201cunattractive individuals\u201d went viral via social media. This was evident in that Abercrombie did not produce women clothing larger than size 10 where Jeffries claimed that \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t belong [in our clothes], and they can\u2019t belong.\u201d<\/p>\n Both scandals that the company has been involved in is extremely unethical to me; in trying to create a brand image that was \u201cluxurious\u201d and \u201cexclusive\u201d, the company had to practice discriminatory acts to not only those of religious backgrounds but also those of certain body types. As said by Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), \u201cno one should ever have to choose between their religion and work\u201d \u2013 it is at the core of business ethics and ethics in general that no one should have face derogatory characterizations so as to fit a certain \u201cbrand image\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-24026228 Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) was found in yet another discrimination dispute for firing a Muslim employee for wearing her headscarf, claiming it would cause \u201cundue hardship\u201d to accommodate her. While initially allowing her to wear her headscarf in Hollister (A&F\u2019s surf-inspired clothing label) colors, Ms Hani Khan … Continue reading