A Wayne woman suing Tiffany & Co. for sex discrimination testified in state court Wednesday that an employee who saw her breast-feeding in the store angrily told her to go into the bathroom to do it.
"I was crying. I was very upset," said Rosa Almond, who testified that she went to the Short Hills Tiffany & Co. store in December 2002 with her two children and a friend to do Christmas shopping. She is seeking monetary damages for emotional distress.
A lawyer for Tiffany maintained that the incident was merely a "flawed interaction" between an employee and a customer in a cramped store hallway during the hectic holiday shopping season.
Defense lawyer Kelly Bird, in an opening statement before jurors in Paterson, also raised questions of gender discrimination and whether they apply. "Not all women choose to breast-feed. It's a choice, not a requirement," she said.
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