Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Hilton hotel 'avoided employing black staff where they would be visible to public'

One of the Hilton Hotel chain’s most exclusive residences avoided employing black staff in jobs where they would be “visible to the public”, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.
Jamaican-born Juliette Giscombe accused managers at the Hilton on Park Lane in Mayfair, London, of racial discrimination after she was repeatedly refused promotion.
The 57-year-old, who is the mother of comedian Richard Blackwood, claimed that black people were not allowed to work in front-of-house positions.
She alleged that she was forced out of her job last year at the five-star hotel after 10 years of being “unable to progress” from a telephonist position.

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