Woman Fired for Facial Hair Is Offered Job Back
<i> Associated Press</i>
TYSONS CORNER, Va. —
A woman who claims she was fired from her hotel job because she has a mustache has been offered her job back.
“We are profoundly sorry that this incident ever happened,” Larry Sternberg, general manager of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, said at a news conference Tuesday.
Licia Joy Galinsky, 30, and her supervisor, Roy Peterson, filed a complaint last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They said they were wrongfully fired because she has a mustache and he did not make her get rid of it.
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