Suit: Chelsea club fired minorities

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DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, August 21st 2008, 11:25 PM Trendy Chelsea nightspot 1OAK axed four minority employees in one week because the owner wanted sexy "white girls" serving his celebrity clientele, a federal lawsuit claims. Waitress Cecilia Shim and bartender Laurence Brown claim in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court that their July firings had more to do with skin ... [link]

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Published 8/22/2008 at The Bosh
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1OAK Owners Accused of Firing Unsexy, Non-White Servers
Published 8/22/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... Four former employees of pretentious Chelsea nightclub 1OAK (the name stands for 'one of a kind') filed a lawsuit against club owners Thursday in Manhattan Federal court, the Daily News reports. Lawyers say the four minority workers – three female waitresses and one male bartender – were terminated because club owner Scott Sartiano only wanted "white girls he could f---" serving drinks, or so they were told by a manager, who allegedly elaborated, "Scott has a thing about Asians, he wants all white girls." In June, 1OAK owners ...