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Muslim Former Worker at Walt Disney World Sues over Dress Code.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004
By Henry Pierson Curtis, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 22--Wearing a hijab has meant not being able to work at Walt Disney World, according to a former employee who claims she lost her job because she refused to remove her Muslim head scarf.
Aicha Baha's civil-rights suit, served this week on Disney, may be the first-ever challenge of the employee dress code at the Central Florida attraction.
"To stop you from working for practicing your religion doesn't seem right to me," the Morocco-born Kissimmee resident said Friday. "There is a family here that is almost out on the street because of Disney."
The hijab is a head scarf that some Muslim women choose to wear as a sign of modesty. Disney...
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