A temporary worker in London was sent home for wearing a flat shoes, has gone into petition with more that 120,000 signatures as of writing....
A temporary worker in London was sent home for wearing a flat shoes, has gone into petition with more that 120,000 signatures as of writing. The petition is Britain to make it illegal for a firm to require women to wear high heels at work.
Reaching that total on Friday easily put Nicola Thorp's petition over the 100,000-signature threshold needed to have Britain's parliament consider holding a debate on an issue.
In addition, Thorp made headlines this week when she launched her campaign describing how she had arrived in flat shoes for her first day to work as a receptionist for accounting company PwC last December to be told she had to wear heels.
The worker, moreover, told British media that she refused an offer to go buy a pair of heels and was sent home without pay.
Portico, the agency through which Thorp got the job, had set the uniform guidelines and has since reviewed and revised its policy upon PwC's request. It now says "all our female colleagues can wear plain flat shoes or plain court shoes as they prefer".
Thorp started the government petition this week, saying "current formal work dress codes are out-dated and sexist".
"Employers are allowed to impose different dress codes for men and women, which is fair enough as long as that dress code doesn't favour one of the sexes," Thorp told Britain's ITN television.
The idea, however, of imposing this law, is truly nonparallel to the being of a person, despite of a company's rules, exception for a particular valid reason should be then considered. -FMNP
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