Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive, Michael Jeffries, has been taken to court in an age discrimination lawsuit by a former employee. Stephen Bustin, a 55-year-old pilot, claims he was replaced by a younger man. He has also revealed very spicy details of how Jeffries treats his airline staff.

Firstly, all the air stewards for the privat jet are young male models – all recruited through model agency Cosmopolitan Management. Bustin alleges that their “official uniform” consists of Abercrombie polo shirts, boxer briefs, flip-flops and a “spritz” of Abercrombie & Fitch’s own brand aftershave.

These employees are banned from wearing coats, unless the temperature falls below 10 degrees, and are also required to wear gloves – black for when handling silverware and white for laying the table. Another weird revelation made by Bustin is that the crew must play Phil Collins’ Take Me Home over the jet’s intercom as the plane takes off on homeward bound flights.

This is not the first time that Abercrombie & Fitch has hit the headlines over claims of degrading staff members. Earlier this year Italian male staff claimed they were forced to do press-ups as punishment. In 2009, a former UK employee took Abercrombie to an employment tribunal. The employee, who was born with the lower part of her arm missing, claimed she was forced to work in the London store’s stockroom because she didn’t fit the company’s strict “look policy”.

[Source: Guardian]