Meet Tara Tan, a former hotel manager of The Standard Hotel in NYC that was fired after she had no other choice but to give birth to her child in one of the hotels guest rooms since she had to work over 80 hours and was not granted maternity leave. The NY Daily News reports:
A Malaysian woman who was a manager at the trendy Standard hotel says she was denied maternity leave and then, when she went into labor near the end of her shift, hustled into a guest room where she gave birth without a doctor present.
Later, she says, the general manager berated her for having the audacity to have the baby at the Meatpacking District hotel.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Tara Kimkee Tan, 42, says that was one of many abuses she suffered during the more than four years she worked at the hotel. Now she’s suing her old bosses for $10 million.
Tan claims she routinely worked more than 80 hours a week, was denied maternity leave and was slowly stripped of her duties. She also was told she was too old and too fat to work at the hotel, where gorgeous guests make love — and pee in full view of pedestrians on the nearby High Line.
Her superiors said she did not “fit the culture” of the hotel, she claims, and they put a fine point on the jab by firing her in August.
The suit, filed by her attorney, William Keith Watanabe, alleges The Standard discriminated against Tan, who is Malaysian but of Chinese descent, because she was not young, white, thin, childless or male.
Well that’s not good!
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I hope she wins and fuck them all over
I hope people start taking personal responsibility for their actions. If she did not like her job conditions, she should of quit. Even if it meant should would have to downsize her life.
Tony… ur an idiot
Yes, I am an an idiot.
How do you quit when you have to keep a roof over your head.. tho she might not have had kids who knows what family she was helping to support while working there. trust me no one is going to put up with such foolishnes unless they are desperate!
hope she wins
she’ll win.
god bless on the kiddo too.
Hope she wins….
P.s. that’s hotel so damn overrated!!!
Why she poppin out babies at 42?
Ya’ mama did. STFU.
That Hotel is a rest-haven for hoes….
She chose to stay and work there, so the hotel should not have to compensate her.
that’s ridiculous. working someplace doesn’t entitle them to mistreat you.
She accepted the mistreatment when she choose to keep going back to work. She was in the situation she was in because she would not leave her employment at the hotel.
your logic is flawed.
she’s a hotel manager. in this market she voluntarily leaves a job and she’s unemployed FOREVER. she has no leverage. further, at her level if she left she’d never get the referral she needed to move on and get an equivalent position anyway.
she’s effectively stuck.
and since they denied her maternity leave – she actually has TWO cases against the hotel. They gonna rename that shit the Tan Hotel in a minute. Not to mention actual medical damages should there be any injury to the baby? She’s never gonna have to work again.
and this isn’t hate against the hotel – i’m there all the time.
your logic is so ridiculous you can’t be fucking serious. employees are always in a position of weakness relative to employers- this why there are laws to balance the equation a bit.
And since there are only like two or three bulletproof professions in the US, you better be in one of them or be a job creator talking all this shit. Before your boss comes in pissing on you and telling you to take it – you better make sure you got alternatives lined up to LEAVE ASAP.
but why are you even entertaining tony…
I agree she should have left, but her staying does not entitle her to be mistreated. And generally discrimination lawsuites are won by the plantiff from what I have seen. I’ve watched people who were treated fairly win these types of cases.
So at your job that you have been at for many years, you get a new supervisor, and the new supervisor doesn’t like you, so they mistreat you and insult you. But you need a job because you are pregnant and have a mortgage, it is ok for this mistreatment? Its like back in the 1950′s when a restaurant didn’t like you because of the way that you looked (skin color), it is cool for them to mistreat you and serve you cold and stale food? What you would say, “Just dont go there”?
Hi….after reading about this in a German Newspaper at page #1(!) … I have decided to sending them this little e-mail – pls. excuse mistakes – I’ve had been a little bit upset (TO : newyork@standardhotel.com, eastvillage@standardhotel.com, hollywood@standardhotel.com, DowntownLA@standardhotel.com, Miami@standardhotel.com, news-tips@nytimes.com, news-tips@nytimes.com )
To the disgusting present management of this hotel (The Standard NY)!
Who the hell did train you maketing and leading people?! – Did no one train managers of this group that the hotel-business is a global one.
Now you guys are having a really really lousy press in France, Netherlands, belgium, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Greece Germany….etc. (as seen today at the several news-shops at FRA-Airport) …. but congratulations….you are on page #1 at all of these newspapers and magazines!
Guess who should be fired! – But however…my first act on upcoming Monday…I will positively check if there might be other vacancies in the USA in existence for our company quite natural excluding your group.
Regards
S.P.Schaf