“This is completely unconstitutional,” attorney Nikiya Natale said. “It’s just a blatantly obvious case of discrimination.” (NO, it isn’t. Stores are allowed to have dress codes for sales personnel)

She said that during that meeting, the manager discussed pay and asked her to come in the next day to begin training. As their conversation was wrapping up, Dallah, who was wearing her hijab, said the manager told her that she could not wear her headscarf on the sales floor.

When she explained that she wore her hijab for religious reasons, the manager told Dallah about another Dillard’s employee who wears her hijab to and from the store, but removes it while working, according to the complaint.

When Dallah arrived for training the following day, she said she met with the store manager who conducted a second interview, during which Dallah explained that her religious beliefs require her to wear a headscarf, even at work. She said the store manager apologized for what the children’s department manager told her about the headscarf the day before and said that the employee was new and didn’t know the rules. Dallah said the store manager then told her she’d be interviewing more people for the job and would be in touch regarding the position. She never heard back.