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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Disabled Abercrombie worker awarded compensation  A student who accused American retailer Abercrombie & Fitch of "hiding" her in the stockroom at its London store because of her disability has been awarded compensation. Riam Dean, a law student from west London, was born without a left forearm and wears a prosthetic arm. She made her bosses at Abercrombie & Fitch aware of her disability after she was hired to work on the sales floor of the flagship London store last June and was initially told she could wear a cardigan to cover the area where her upper arm joined to her prosthesis. However, she was then told that the cardigan broke the company's "look policy" and she was removed from the shop floor. Ms Dean explained to a tribunal that an individual in the Abercrombie & Fitch head office said she should stay in the store's stock room "until the winter uniform arrives". The 22-year-old law student has been awarded £7,800 in compensation for injury to her feelings, £138 in damages for wrongful dismissal and £1,077 for loss of earnings. Abercrombie & Fitch has stores across the United States, Canada and the UK. 
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