Melissa Joan Hart: racist? That’s what a former employee of the Melissa and Joey actress claims in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles that names Hart and several other business associates as defendants.
In the lawsuit – first obtained by E! News — Shana Kharineh alleges that she was subjected to racial discrimination soon after she was hired as manager of Sweet Harts Sweets in Sherman Oaks, California location in May 2011 for $450 a week.
Kharineh, an African American woman, alleges that she was required to work several hours of overtime without overtime pay or breaks. She also said she was told not to wear black as part of her work uniform because “‘black on black’ did not look appropriate,” according to the document.
The former manager said she was fired in August, but not before her employers “berated and humiliated her” about her personality and relationships with co-workers and laughed that “when she bent over her underwear would show.”
