{"id":6726,"date":"2010-05-19T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T02:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:21:52","slug":"former-j-employees-sue-prada-for-sexual-and-power-harassment-tv-claims-racial-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6726","title":{"rendered":"Former J employees sue Prada for sexual and power harassment, TV claims “racial discrimination”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 In an interesting twist to the whole “racial discrimination” issue in Japan, we have Japanese managers suing their former employer, world-famous luxury brand maker Prada, for alleged workplace sexual and power harassment, and “lookism” (i.e. treating people adversely based upon their “looks”).\u00a0 Some excerpts from the Japan Times:<\/p>\n

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The Japan Times Saturday, March 20, 2010
\nFired Prada manager files suit (excerpt)
\nBy MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100320a8.html<\/a>
\nFormer Prada Japan manager Rina Bovrisse filed suit Friday with the Tokyo District Court, seeking compensation for emotional distress from alleged harassment, she and her lawyers said….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Japan Times Saturday, April 17, 2010
\nEx-Prada exec claims harassment (excerpt)
\nBy MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100417a6.html<\/a>
\nFormer Prada Japan senior retail manager Rina Bovrisse, who is suing the company over emotional distress from alleged harassment, said Friday she took the action to support mistreated working women in Japan who don’t feel they have the power to fight their employers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I filed the lawsuit against Prada Japan for creating a working environment cruel and unsafe for women,” Bovrisse said at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court. “Prada Japan’s personnel practice is abusive to women.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The civil trial, in which Bovrisse will argue that the Italian fashion company discriminated against her and other female workers for what the company president called poor appearance, will get under way May 14. She is demanding an apology, compensation and cancellation of her dismissal from the company….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Japan Times Saturday, May 15, 2010
\nTwo former managers to file harassment suits against Prada (excerpt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

By MINORU MATSUTANI Staff writer<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20100515a9.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Two former shop managers of Prada Japan will file harassment lawsuits against the company, a move inspired by a former senior retail manager who sued the company for another harassment case, her lawyer said Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yoshiki Kojima, the lawyer for former senior retail manager Rina Bovrisse, revealed the move when her suit commenced before the Tokyo District Court. Bovrisse is demanding the company apologize, pay compensation for emotional distress and come up with measures to prevent harassment. […]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bovrisse alleges Prada Japan’s CEO asked her to get rid of shop managers and assistant managers who he described as unattractive last May. After she refused to do so, Prada Japan’s human resources manager gave most of those managers, including the two planning to file suit, transfer orders that amounted to demotions in May and June last year, according to Bovrisse and a shop manager and two assistant shop managers who received the orders.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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COMMENT<\/strong>:\u00a0 Good, in the sense that people who are treated badly by employers don’t just take it on the chin as usual.\u00a0 But what makes this a Debito.org issue is the allegation, made by at least one morning Wide Show (“Sukkiri” last Monday, May 17), is that the companies are practicing “racial discrimination” (jinshu sabetsu<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Funny thing, that.\u00a0 If this were a Japanese company being sued for harassment (some examples here<\/a>), there would be no claim of racial discrimination (as race would not be a factor).\u00a0 But this time it’s not a Japanese company — it’s Prada.\u00a0 Yet when NJ or naturalized Japanese sue for racial discrimination (as they did in the Otaru Onsen Case<\/a>), the media would NEVER call it “racial discrimination”<\/a>, merely “cultural misunderstandings” and the like.<\/p>\n

Another example of the Japanese media saying racism is only something done TO Japanese, never BY Japanese?<\/p>\n

Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interesting twist to the whole “racial discrimination” issue in Japan, we have Japanese managers suing their former employer, world-famous luxury brand maker Prada, for alleged workplace sexual and power harassment, and “lookism” (i.e. treating people adversely based upon their “looks”). <\/p>\n

Good, in the sense that people who are treated badly by employers don’t just take it on the chin as usual. But what makes this a Debito.org issue is the allegation, made by at least one morning Wide Show (“Sukkiri” last Monday, May 17), is that the companies are practicing “racial discrimination” (jinshu sabetsu). <\/p>\n

Funny thing, that. If this were a Japanese company being sued for harassment, there would be no claim of racial discrimination (as race would not be a factor). But this time it’s not a Japanese company — it’s Prada. Yet when NJ or naturalized Japanese sue for racial discrimination (as they did in the Otaru Onsen Case), the media would NEVER call it “racial discrimination”, merely “cultural misunderstandings” and the like. <\/p>\n

Another example of the Japanese media saying racism is only something done TO Japanese, never BY Japanese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5,26,16,13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-business-practices","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-shoe-on-the-other-foot-dept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}