KARACHI: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a software house, Creative Chaos, was asked to resign today (Friday) as he reportedly asked a newly-recruited female employee to either stop wearing her hijab at work or to quit.
The software house took to Facebook to inform that the CEO of the company was asked to step down for workplace discrimination.
CEO of Creative Chaos Software Services asked to step down for workplace discrimination.
Posted by Creative Chaos on Friday, October 19, 2018
Later, the company’s board of directors issued a statement which read, “A young professional woman resigned from Creative Chaos Software Services in Karachi as she was made to feel that she will not be able to perform her duties due to her headscarf.”
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“Of being made aware of the unethical situation, the group CEO immediately sent her an apology and requested that she reconsider her resignation and for her to give them some time to make it right,” it added.
According to the statement, the CEO and the hiring manager were both found to have violated the ethos of the company.
Statement from the Board of Directors.
Posted by Creative Chaos on Friday, October 19, 2018
A few days earlier, a Facebook post went viral which shared details of how the newly appointed girl was asked by her line manager that she could only continue with her job if she did not wear the headscarf to work.
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According to that post, the girl then took up the matter with the CEO, who responded saying that it promotes the “wrong image” and suggested her to apply to Islamic banks instead.
The CEO also asked the girl to resign and refused to make the demands in writing as she had asked. Moreover, the recruit was also warned against taking any legal action against the company.
