Disabled student wins employment tribunal against Abercrombie and Fitch

An employment tribunal has told clothes retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) to pay a disabled worker more than £9,000 for wrongful dismissal. Law student Riam Dean, who worked at the US retailer’s London store in 2007, claimed she was asked to move from working on the shopfloor to the stockroom because she did not fit the firm’s image.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School