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A former Disney contractor has filed a lawsuit alleging rampant racial harassment by employees and executives at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.
Monica Shaw, who is African-American, claims her supervisors discriminated against her by criticizing her “updo” hair-style, forbidding her from wearing her preferred heels and giving her a smaller workstation than her Caucasian counterparts, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Shaw describes being asked by white colleagues whether she ate chitterlings and feuding with an executive who described her shoes as “spiked pumps” and said they didn’t conform with the company’s attire policy in the suit she and her lawyers filed Friday, the publication noted.
“My non-black coworkers were never complained of, chastised nor embarrassed for wearing clothing that complied with Disney’s Look Book,” the lawsuit says, referring to Disney’s dress code.
A spokeswoman for Disney told the Sentinel that the company hadn’t been formally served but would respond to the allegations in court.
Shaw worked at Disney world from late 2012 to February 2014, and she received a notice of right to sue from on Nov. 7 after reporting a grievance with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, the Sentinel noted.
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