Worker's Rights

Abercrombie and Fitch haven't had the best reputation with worker's rights in the past for example:

"Models over employees":

> A&F were known for putting the more conventionally attractive employees at the front of the store. Anyone that didn't fit into this bracket would be in the store room.

> In 2003 black, Asian and Hispanic employees sued the company over this recruitment policy as several employees complained that when they applied for their jobs they were steered towards low-visibility, back-of-the-store jobs stocking and cleaning up rather than sales positions due to their ethnicity.

> An agreement was announced that called for Abercrombie and Fitch to pay $40 million to several thousand minority and female employees.

> A&F also agreed to hire 25 diversity recruiters and a vice president for diversity to reach goals of the hiring and promotion of minorities and woman to reflect the amount of applicants.

Religion:

> Abercrombie and Fitch have fired and refused to hire multiple Muslim women due to them wearing a Hijab or headscarves.

> Other cases where a Hijab wearing woman hasn't been fired she has been redirected to work in the back of the store.

> This strict "The Abercrombie and Fitch look" policy also effected former employee Niti Patel as she was threatened to be moved into the stock room due to her wearing a religious string around her wrist which she could not cut off.

> In 2015 Samantha Elauf filed a lawsuit against Abercrombie and Fitch for denying her employment in 2008 when she was 17 as her interviewer outright told her she could not be employed due to her being Muslim and so would have to wear a head scarf which does not fit in with Abercrombie and Fitch's "Look policy". - The case made it all the way to the US Supreme Court which voted in Samantha's favour.

Samantha Elauf

Disability:

> In 2009 student Riam Dean won £9,000 in a discrimination case against Abercrombie and Fitch due to her disability not fitting in with A&F's "Look policy".

> Riam was born without her left forearm and was told she would be able to war a cardigan to cover her prosthetic limb, however shortly after was told that cardigans are only allowed to be worn with the store's winter uniform which resulted in her being moved to work in the stockroom.

Riam Dean

Healthcare:

> A former Abercrombie and Fitch employee wrote in an online 'Thought Catalog' - "Because A&F corporate consists of mostly goblins and lesser demons, they forced store managers to intentionally craft the schedule so as to keep people at the upper edges of part-time and therefore not eligible for health care."