http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/03/06/workplace-dress-codes-high-heels-uk-debate/98800652/ Well I'm betting a lot of working women are going to have something to say about this bit of news! I say let's make the men wear high heels and see how fast they stop debating this issue! They actually sent a woman home from work because she was wearing flats.
Ha!!! I am on my feet at work up to 11 hours a day. I have a double herniated lumbar disc, and RA in many of my joints including my feet. I can wear high heels Car to Bar..but never in a month of Sundays could I wear high heels to work. I read this story a couple of months ago...and there's no way this will ever become a legal workplace requirement here in the UK...it's all just a ridiculous nonsense . In fact The trade Union Congress took this to the house of commons some years ago and it was deemed unrealistic and unhealthy to expect a woman to wear high heels if she's spending most of her worktime on her feet, because it causes OA in the feet, ankles, and lower back...
Different strokes for different folks! @Gary Ridenour Lots of women really like high heel shoes, but I don't think any woman likes being told what she has to do!
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I think that it would be stupid for employers to do so, but I think they should have the right to require pretty much whatever dress code they want. I can't help but think that the marketplace would remedy the problem, as they will have trouble finding people willing to do that.
After my wife fell, wearing normal high heels, going to an interview in 2015, we took all of her high heels to the Goodwill. All she has now is pumps and tennis shoes. Luckily, she able to wear black tennis shoes to work. Other than on Friday, which is casual/jean day, she wears business attire to work. Nothing fancy, but is nice looking. I think companies have a right, and should, have a dress code. To many employees would come to work looking kind of "trashy" if not for a dress code. Years ago, when I would go to interviews, I was shocked (and in some cases, totally shocked) at how some potential employees would come dressed for an interview.
I've never needed to file for unemployment, so I'm not sure just how unemployment works nowadays. But say 25 years ago, I remember that if a person wanted to ride on unemployment for awhile, they would go to the three monthly (?) required job applications dressed as disorderly as possible. That way they knew their application would go the bottom of the pile.
That was how it was in Washington back then, too, @Ina I. Wonder . The company I worked for was hiring a new person to train as an assistant manager, and we had people who came in to fill out an application, and they wore old cut-offs and sandals. At least it was a good way for us to tell who was actually interested in the job and who was just getting in their quota of job apps for the week. My boss usually hired the person who called back the most times about the job because he believed that person was the one who really wanted it the most. He would have us mark on their resume each time they called, and then after a week or so, he looked to see who was still calling and that was who he hired. That was actually how I got the job there, too; the other lady who worked there and answered the phone told me to keep calling back every day and ask if they had hired anyone yet, and that is what I did. I might have been the least qualified; but I did actually want the job really bad, and was happy to get it.