Garnier, Adecco fined for racism

sunshinelady

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Garnier, Adecco fined for racism
The French cosmetics company, Garnier, and Swiss employment agency Adecco have been found guilty of carrying out a racist recruitment campaign in 2000. A French appeals court overturned an earlier acquittal and ruled both companies had colluded to find only white women to sell make-up in Paris.
They were fined 30,000 euros ($40,865) and a former Adecco employee was given a three-month suspended jail sentence.
Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal, said it was not racist and would appeal.
Adecco, the world's biggest employment agency, said it was astonished by the ruling and was considering an appeal.
'Coded instructions'
The Paris Appeal Court found that Adecco had complied with what prosecutors said were coded instructions from Garnier to find only young, white women for its counters in the capital.
The court was shown a Garnier memo requesting "BBR" women - an acronym for "bleu-blanc-rouge" or "blue-white-red", the colours of the French flag in French.
Prosecutors said the term was a racist code for excluding black, Arab or Asian women.
The term is also used in the literature of the far-right National Front party in France.
After finding them guilty, the court fined Garnier, Adecco and one its subsidiary's, Ajilon, 30,000 euros, as well as 10,000 euros ($13,600) of legal costs, to the pressure group SOS Racisme.
Therese Coulange, a former Adecco employee, was given a three-month suspended prison sentence.
However, the former Garnier director, Laurent Dubois, and another Adecco employee were acquitted.
The ruling was the first time in France that blue-chip companies have been convicted of racial discrimination in hiring.
The charges had originally been dismissed by a civil court in June 2006 on the grounds that there was sufficient doubt about their guilt.



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yourleoqueen

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I wonder how the Garnier lovin ladies on the board will feel about this. I guess one of them will come in here eventually. *ahem*
 

KnottyGurl

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lisana said:
They are just the ones who got caught.
I agree with you. I use their hair products and I'm kinda :eek: Great, quality products, but :eek: :ohwell:


yourleoqueen said:
I wonder how the Garnier lovin ladies on the board will feel about this. I guess one of them will come in here eventually. *ahem*
Yep. I'm one of them. I'm not gonna cry about it though. So many products, so little time.:ohwell:
 
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yourleoqueen

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GeechyGurl, I'm just curious, are you going to continue to use Garnier products?

I hate to say it, but I know if Alberto Culver an 'nem got caught with they asses out, I would have a heard time giving up their products.
 

KnottyGurl

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Use their products? :nono: I will finish up what I have (and I have alot) but there are sooooo many other products out there that dropping them wouldn't bother me one bit. That's why I said "So many products, so little time." There are too many alternatives (companies) to be choose from. I still say there are probably alot of other companies out there with the same practices (they just got caught) and that they have the bomb products, but if I can't work for you, I can't patronize you.

yourleoqueen said:
GeechyGurl, I'm just curious, are you going to continue to use Garnier products?

I hate to say it, but I know if Alberto Culver an 'nem got caught with they asses out, I would have a heard time giving up their products.
 
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