A for­mer man­ager for a New York hotel has filed a law­suit alleg­ing she was fired after giv­ing birth in one of the busi­ness’ rooms. Tara Tan, a for­mer man­ager at the Stan­dard Hotel, said her prob­lems at the accom­mo­da­tion began after she gave birth to her sec­ond child in a hotel room while she was work­ing. Tan said she returned to work three days after the birth and was told she would be docked pay for the time she missed. She said she soon found her­self being stripped of respon­si­bil­i­ties and was falsely accused of steal­ing boxes. Tan said a supe­rior fired her, say­ing she didn’t fit into the “cul­ture of the hotel.” The law­suit alleges the supe­rior meant “that she did not pos­sess the phys­i­cal attrib­utes to work at the hotel because at over 40 years of age and hav­ing recently given birth to two chil­dren she was, so far as defen­dants were con­cerned, not young, thin of model-like pro­por­tions, or one of ‘the beau­ti­ful peo­ple’ desired at the hotel.” The dis­crim­i­na­tion law­suit is seek­ing $10 mil­lion in damages.

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