Former Macy’s Employees Sue The Company for Racial Profiling

Four former Macy’s employees have alleged that the department store chain has racial profiled them.

According to the employees’ law firm Wigdor LLP, the four plaintiffs alledged that the company had objected them to “long and uncomfortable history of racial profiling.”

The former employees were told by their managers in Macy’s cosmetics and fragrance department to refuse to sell products to Asian customers. According to the employees, it was because they assumed that Asian customers would buy in the United States only to sell them at a markup “on the grey market” in their home countries.

According to the former employees, they were told to “look out for” Asian customers and to “not sell” to them.

The law firm wrote that the plaintiffs were “regularly” told to sell only one of each product to Asian customers. The store
has a policy that customers could buy up to six of each product.

The plaintiffs had complained to managers as well as their union and were fired “in a blatant act of retaliation against those employees who dared to speak up against such unlawful racial profiling.”

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