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"A septuagenarian from northwest Philadelphia is suing Texas-based<br /><br />Neiman Marcus Group over allegations that the company fired him for retaliatory reasons.<br /><br />Alberto Morina, who worked as a tailor for the company, claims in a recently filed civil suit that the defendant terminated his employment in the summer of 2012 after he complained that sales people were improperly deleting alteration charges off of the plaintiff&rsquo;s tickets, which went against the defendant&rsquo;s policies and rules, and financially penalized him, the lawsuit claims.<br /><br />Morina, who was 71 years old at the time, says that the deleting of tailoring charges off of his tickets was allowed to occur by a manager identified as Kinh Huynh, who the plaintiff says fired him at the &ldquo;first opportunity.&rdquo;<br /><br />Huynh is not named as a party to the litigation.<br /><br />The termination came about a month to a month-and-a-half after the plaintiff complained about the deletion of the alteration charges, the complaint states.<br /><br />Morina, who had been employed with the company since July 2001, claims that the incident that gave rise to his complaints involved a salesman who attempted to get the plaintiff to take measurements of a friend&rsquo;s jacket, one that was not purchased at Neiman Marcus.<br /><br />The plaintiff confronted the salesman &ldquo;as friends,&rdquo; and told the man, using a profanity apparently in jest, that he was not allowed to work on &ldquo;non Neiman Marcus stuff.&rdquo;<br /><br />Two weeks after the confrontation, the suit says, the plaintiff was fired after he was called in to his supervisor&rsquo;s office.<br /><br />Morina had no prior warnings nor was he ever written up for anything relating to the cursing incident prior to his termination, the complaint states.<br /><br />He had also never received any discipline or warnings of any type related to his job.<br /><br />&ldquo;Plaintiff believes Defendant&rsquo;s actions were retaliatory because Plaintiff had been employed by Defendant for 11 years and he had no disciplinary actions,&rdquo; the lawsuit states.<br /><br />Morina said that cursing, which was the reason given for his termination, regularly occurs between coworkers in the backroom area used for breaks.<br /><br />The defendant is accused of violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.<br /><br />Morina seeks back pay and benefits, front pay, unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, damages for pain, suffering, inconvenience and mental anguish, interest and legal fees.<br /><br />The suit was filed March 7 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia by attorney Fredrick M. Walton, Jr. of Harvey Pennington LTD.<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><i>The federal case number is 2:14-cv-01394-RB.</i>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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