Proctor & Gamble CO is facing a lawsuit from a former cosmetics saleswoman after the company fired her for becoming pregnant. Tiffany Kantrowitz, who worked at P&G’s Dolce and Gabbana makeup shop at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for two years claims that she was told that “pregnancy is not part of the uniform,” by a supervisor when she had informed them of her desire to have children.
Kantrowitz says that her firing, which occurred in February 2015, was due to her request to sit down while dealing with customers because of her pregnancy. Doing so would be in violation of the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act and a similar New York City law.
The lawsuit goes on to state that P&G forced Kantrowitz to take breaks and deducted those breaks from the leave time she planned to take after the baby was born under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
“For (P&G), ever vigilant about the image of its makeup shop sales associates, pregnancy did not comport with the ‘perfect look,'” the lawsuit said.
The company told Kantorwitz that she was being fired for taking “tester” items for her own personal use, something that P&G encourages the cosmetic staff to do so and have never warned against during the two years she spent working there.
The lawsuit does not name Dolce and Gabbana or Saks as part of the lawsuit. A representative for P&G has stated that the company has a licensing agreement to make and sell Dolce and Gabbana products but has declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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