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The guys discuss the racial discrimination filing against the makeup company Sephora. They also answer, "Can I allow my employees to bring their dogs in the office?" Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right, welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com– that’s an email address and not a web address. So, send in your questions that way. It’s not a phone number either. If you’re calling that, you’re just so off, I don’t even know where to start with you. MATT: Well, I think the— NASIR: Wait. Wait, hold on. Did you just interrupt my intro? MATT: Yeah, I did. NASIR: I’m not done yet. MATT: It wasn’t going anywhere. NASIR: My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: Mine’s Matt Staub. NASIR: And I was going to say, if they ended up at the web address, it would take them to the spot where they could still submit their question. MATT: I don’t know. NASIR: I think. Yeah, you’re probably right. MATT: Well, didn’t we switch stuff around with the website? NASIR: Yeah. That’s true. If you guys are going there, you’ll be very confused. I don’t know what they’re going to see yet so it’s still in the (00:01:01 unclear). MATT: But the email still works. NASIR: The email still works. MATT: Okay. NASIR: Hopefully, for you guys, it’s pretty much the same. Just ignore what we just said. MATT: I was just thinking out loud. NASIR: We’re going to talk about your favorite topic today, right? Makeup law. MATT: Makeup law, yeah. Well, I don’t know too much about it. NASIR: Didn’t you study it in law school? No? MATT: Was that cosmetology? I think that’s an actual major. NASIR: In law? MATT: No, in real life. NASIR: Oh, yeah, you can get your cosmetology license. MATT: The place next-door to here is, well, I guess that’s more hair. NASIR: That Paul Mitchell school? MATT: I always want to say Paul Walker but that’s the guy from Fast and Furious. Paul Mitchell School of Hair Design. I always think it’s make-up because all the people that go to the school are wearing so much make-up, it doesn’t make sense. They’re probably the people that we’re going to talk about in this story. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: So, I’ll just get into the story. So, Sephora – which is a make-up store because I’ve seen that… NASIR: I know you know about it. Don’t act like you don’t. MATT: I’m going after this recording. So, I guess they have some insider, some VIP-type memberships and they’ll run special deals for them. I think, in this one, it was 20 percent off all products – no limits for a five day period starting November 6. So, running this promotion and they started cutting off some people’s access or shutting down people’s accounts because they thought that they were just buying products in bulk which they call the “grey market.” NASIR: Basically reselling, right? MATT: Resell, yeah. I guess it’s not an illegal product so that’s why it’s not the “black market.” So, they thought these people were buying in bulk so they shut down their account because they said, “Hey, you can’t do that.” Problem is, at least the people that have filed this class action lawsuit say, that’s not the case and they all happen to be women of Chinese descent so they’re claiming racial discrimination. NASIR: Racial discrimination and… MATT: They probably aren’t claiming gender discrimination. I don’t know. They’re claiming the only criteria for cancelling accounts were looking at their names, seeing that they were Asian names or Chinese domain names like qq.com and 163.com which I’ve never even heard of those so I want to know that. NASIR: First of all, this is strange to me because they put this no-limit on their discount or sale and then basically they are getting upset because people are buying too much of it, right? It doesn’t make sense to me. If they wanted a limit then just say “limit one per customer” or what everyone else does, right?