A 27-year-old temporary worker London this week in the UK provoked high heels uprising. More than a hundred thousand people have signed an Internet petition against companies that force women to wear all day high heels. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the woman sent her first day straight to home because she wanted to perform her job as a receptionist in flat shoes.
Her employer, employment agency Portico, its now decided to send to companies with less stringent policies shoes, but because Thorp was suddenly much less work. PwC now argues that there was a misunderstanding.
Thorp, which is twice actress has starred in the television series Doctor Who, let it not give up and began a successful campaign in the social media. Her petition also focused on the frequent requirement for women to wear makeup. The signatories include the Conservative Lagerhuislid Margot James. The petition aims to prohibit such obligations. According to Thorp works sexist labor law in favor of employers. Portico has now promised to modify the dress code.
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Many London women have to wear the habit during commuter sneakers to do once in office shoes with heels. In recent days, several women protesting the photos put online by the blisters that they have sustained their high-heeled days. Shoes with heels or otherwise remain as popular in the nightlife, which sometimes leads to comic scenes with excessive drinking. A well-known critic of high heels is Queen Elizabeth. The 90-year-old queen always wears during her work 'comfortable shoes'. In her eyes that shoes with heels of more than 3 centimeters.
High heels question Leontine Bijleveld is not playing in the Netherlands reacts Association Women and Law, although "sometimes plays a discussion about whether or not to short skirts. But that's it. "
To avoid problems, providing companies sometimes workwear. By banks, but also in the hospitality industry. "Five Star and the better restaurants adhere to clean clothes. As provided by the company itself and clear as before where someone must adhere to, there is nothing wrong, "says Ben Francooy, chairman of FNV Horeca. A spokesman for PwC in the Netherlands says that high heels were prescribed in Britain by the agency that provided the receptionist to PwC.
By Editorial Volkskrant: By: Patrick van IJzendoorn, Nanda Troost Photo: Thinkstock
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