VANCOUVER, August 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has awarded a claimant $6,000 in damages against a nightclub that ordered her to wear a bikini top during work as a server. In April, 2001, Andrea Mottu, 26, was told she could not serve drinks by Barfly Nightclub manager Cass MacLeod unless she wore a bikini top for a B.C. Institute of Technology fundraiser. She called her union who told her she was under no obligation to fulfill McLeod’s order.
Mottu was told by a fellow employee that she would not be able to serve the drink special that normally meant a lucrative tip because she had shown up in a sweater. “It was pretty upsetting for me and I ended up crying in the back room and I couldn’t even work,” she said, as reported by CanWest News. The club owner’s action was ruled sexual discrimination by the tribunal, because similar conditions were not required of male employees. tv