Workers rights, sexism, age discrimination and a whole bunch of other isms are conflicting with the rights of an employer to run a business as he or she feels it should be run as the rebranding of the Resorts Hotel/Casino in Atlantic City takes an expected turn.

Nine drink servers were fired recently when the new bosses at Resorts said that they weren't sexy enough to fit the properity's new hip business model. The fired servers, some of whom have worked at Resorts for decades, say that they were humiliated when they were forced to wear ill-fitting outfits when they re-applied for their jobs under the new ownership, and that their only crime was their inability to create a time machine that would make them 25 years younger.

Resorts obviously sees things differently. Owner Dennis Gomes is trying to return the proprerty to profitiability in a tough economy, and says that the servers who were let go were unfortunate collateral damage. Nothing personal, Gomes says, but if we don't change things around quickly, there will be no jobs here for anyone.

The firing no doubt strikes a chord with many older workers who have lost jobs or been denied promotions, and the drink servers at the Rio in Vegas who lost their jobs several years ago when schleppers were also required to dance periodically can certainly identify.

Was Resorts' action morally right? Probably not.

Was it legally allowable? That's an entirely different question, and the servers have hired high-profile feminist attorney Gloria Allred to get them their day in court.

Meanwhile, Gomes has more trouble on his hands. On Thursday hundreds of other Resorts workers rallied on the Boardwalk to protest wage cuts that Gomes had imposed. Union reps say some cuts were as deep as 52 percent, forcing employees to apply for food stamps to make ends meet.