A former manager at the swanky Standard Hotel says she was booted from her job after giving birth in one of its rooms.
Tara Tan (pictured, with infant) often worked 100 hours a week in the hotel, and was one of the people who helped to get it up and running, only to be fired when a superior declared that she didn’t fit into the “culture of the hotel,” according to her Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
The $10 million discrimination lawsuit says that 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.”
When she gave birth while on the job, the hotel called an ambulance and brought it to the side door, so Tan and her baby could be taken out without disturbing the Friday-night party crowd, her suit charges.
“She’s a good soul and a hard worker, and deserved better,” said her lawyer, Keith Watanabe.
A rep for the hotel did not respond to requests for comment.