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Judge rules casino waitresses can be fired for getting “fat”
August 19, 2013
Salon – Last week, Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Nelson Johnson ruled that waitresses at a New Jersey casino can be fired for putting on weight, potentially setting a dangerous precedent for other workplace discrimination cases, experts say. The 22 women behind the suit, known as the “Borgata Babes” targeted a policy at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa that barred them from gaining more than 7 percent of their original body weight, as Time notes: The “babes” argued that the casino viewed them as nothing but sex objects and were forced to endure frequent weigh-ins and were even suspended when…