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NEW YORK, Sep 12, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Two New York waitresses are suing their former bosses for allegedly requiring them to weigh in before work at a trendy bar.
Kristen McRedmond, 27, and Alexandria Lipton, 25, allege in their $15 million sexual harassment suit managers insisted only female workers take part in the weight-tracking regimen and said only female employees were ridiculed if they ordered fried food for their own meals.
Rosemarie Arnold, the lawyer for the two -- whom the New York Post termed the "weightresses" -- said "this has to be the most egregious case of degradation to women that I have ever seen."
The suit accuses Sutton Place of sexual harassment and of illegally firing the women for allegedly complaining about the weigh-ins.
A lawyer for Sutton Place denied the allegations and called them a "nice piece of fiction," the newspaper said.
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