
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 30, 1994                   TAG: 9403300077
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TYSONS CORNER                                LENGTH: Short

HOTEL WANTS TO REINSTATE WOMAN WITH MUSTACHE

Officials of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel said Tuesday they want to reinstate a woman who claimed she was fired because she has a mustache.

"We are profoundly sorry that this incident ever happened," Larry Sternberg, general manager of the hotel, said at a news conference.

Licia Joy Galinsky, 30, and her former supervisor, Roy Peterson, filed a complaint last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

They said they were wrongfully fired because she has a mustache and he did not make her get rid of it.

The complaint was against both the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the pair's employer, Atlanta-based Total Audio Visual Services, which has a contract with the hotel.

"We realize now that we were not as sensitive in this matter as we should have been, and we want to right the wrong," Sternberg said.

by CNB