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Labor/Employment

Mar. 11, 2003

Trial Granted In Manager's Refusal to Fire Not-Hot Clerk

SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she paid a price for disobeying her bosses at L'Oreal U.S.A. Within four months of her refusal to terminate the clerk, Yanowitz, then 52, went on stress leave and eventually lost her job as Northern California regional sales manager.

By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough.
        But she paid a price for disobeying her bosses at L'Oreal U.S.A. Within four months of her refusal to terminate the clerk, Yanowit...

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