The owner of an Italian bistro on New York's Upper East Side says the city's Human Rights Commission is targeting business owners who unintentionally use gender-based language in job ads, the New York Post reported Friday. <\/p>\n
Giuseppe Bruno's restaurant, Sistina, was fined $5,000 for a Craigslist ad that read \"Hostess\/coat check needed. Reliable, personable, organized.\" The commission said the ad violated the city's civil rights law, which bans gendered language in employment ads. <\/p>\n
\"This is an outrage. I'm not going to settle. I didn't do anything wrong,\" Bruno told the Post. \"It's possible we made a mistake, but we got no warning.\"<\/p>\n
State Sen. Jose Peralta said many of the cases don't come out of actual complaints, but rather from college students getting paid by HRC to troll online classifieds.<\/p>\n
Bruno's assistant, who posted the online ad, says she received two responses via e-mail from one male and one female, who were actually testers for the commission. According to the complaint, the restaurant only opened the e-mail from the female respondent.<\/p>\n
Bruno hopes to get off with a warning, but a commission s pokeswoman told the Post that warnings are not a part of its mission. <\/p>\n
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