Bier Markt backtracks on skimpy dress code for female employees

[Sonikku]

http://globalnews.ca/news/2316618/bier-markt-backtracks-on-skimpy-dress-code-for-female-employees/

According to the CBC, when one server pointed out her underwear was visible through the dress, a manager reportedly told her to wear a thong instead.

:sneaky:

 

[BoberFett]

New skimpy dress requirement aside, I'm confused by this statement:

“I started working at the Bier Markt partly because I was so enamoured by the gender-neutral uniform,” she said.

“Regardless of whether you were a man or a woman, everyone was wearing black polo golf shirts. Everyone was wearing black pants. You had options.”

First, who's enamored by work uniforms?

Second, how does everyone wearing black polos and black pants mean you have options?

 

[JSt0rm]

people positioning for a lawsuit are enamored by things like that.

 

[JulesMaximus]

New skimpy dress requirement aside, I'm confused by this statement:



First, who's enamored by work uniforms?

Second, how does everyone wearing black polos and black pants mean you have options?

People in the food service industry who don't want to dress in sexually provocative ways or be objectified in any way?

Tell you what, you go to work wearing a short blue dress and high heels every day and tell me you wouldn't prefer a black polo and black slacks.

 

[master_shake_]

People in the food service industry who don't want to dress in sexually provocative ways or be objectified in any way?

Tell you what, you go to work wearing a short blue dress and high heels every day and tell me you wouldn't prefer a black polo and black slacks.

also sensible shoes.

 

[Double Trouble]

So I guess Hooters can't do business in Canada?

If you don't like the skimpy outfit required for that job, how about simply work somewhere else? Unless someone is forcing you to work there, you have options.

It's not just women either. If there's a restaurant where the guys have to be buff looking dudes with tight outfits, so what? Don't like it, don't work there? Seems simple enough.

 

[3chordcharlie]

So I guess Hooters can't do business in Canada?

If you don't like the skimpy outfit required for that job, how about simply work somewhere else? Unless someone is forcing you to work there, you have options.

It's not just women either. If there's a restaurant where the guys have to be buff looking dudes with tight outfits, so what? Don't like it, don't work there? Seems simple enough.

Read the article.

This brushes up against all sort of discrimination issues, constructive dismissal, etc. It is not a case of entitled brats whining.

 

[JulesMaximus]

So I guess Hooters can't do business in Canada?

If you don't like the skimpy outfit required for that job, how about simply work somewhere else? Unless someone is forcing you to work there, you have options.

It's not just women either. If there's a restaurant where the guys have to be buff looking dudes with tight outfits, so what? Don't like it, don't work there? Seems simple enough.

This wasn't Hooters though. The restaurant just decided to implement a unique uniform requirement among only female employees where there wasn't one prior.

Would you be okay with your employer suddenly requiring you to pump up in your spare time and wear tight outfits to work?

 

[TheVrolok]

The thong comment doesn't really bother me, if one doesn't want underwear lines showing through thin material, one wears a thong. That's not rocket science. If there is a new dress code for only female employees and it truly is "revealing" then they may have a case as it certainly doesn't seem think this is one of "those theme restaurants."

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I've told women that worked for me that undergarments should not be seen. HR approved because its a fact however this was in the context that they need to cover up more not less.