Fuss on the attire on the Danish company: – Disrespectful

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januari 28, 2019

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Sandals and shorts or suit and leather shoes. Dresscode on all sorts of jobs in Denmark are very different, but how much must the employer actually interfere?

It is the focal point in a case from may 2018, which the board for equal treatment has been involved.

It all started 31. may 2018, as the head of the technical department of the company, which is described as a merger of two earlier companies, which now are owned by an international private equity fund, sent the following email to its employees:

‘yesterday, I was asked to wear closed shoes and long pants at work, and now I want to make it clear to the entire department, to do the same. Dresscodens description can be understood in several different ways, and it is new to many, but to make it clear, so women must like to show of legs and feet, as it can still be formally’, he wrote.

And it got the plaintiff up in the red field.

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scantily clad women – covered men
According to him was the new dress code is not an expression of equality, and he believed certainly not, that it is fair that the women can roll around in sandals and skirts, while the men must have long pants on.

Especially in the summer heat.

‘In a hot office seen female employees in sandals, short shorts and sleeveless tops, while the male employees must go covered. The female colleagues had not implored that their attire was inappropriate.’

’the Complaints made in the email of both his boss, indklagedes director and HR aware that he believes that there is a violation of the equal treatment act. He did not receive any response to this email from the management. Management considered it not necessary to correct the mail’, it sounds in the Ligebehandlingsnævnets decision.

But the respondent company is far from agree with their employee, and they demanded an acquittal in the case on the following grounds.

‘It is of crucial importance for the respondent, that the employees, who have contact with customers and partners, dressed in a way so that they have a professional appearance during working hours.’

‘There is a very big difference in what signals a man wearing shorts and sandals, sends, in conjunction with a woman wearing skirt and sandals. A man wearing shorts and sandals with this attire does not a professional appearance in contrast to a woman wearing skirt and sandals. Many, especially foreign customers and partners will find that men wearing shorts and sandals during working hours have a highly inappropriate and disrespectful attire’, says the respondent company of the decision.

And bought the board for equal treatment. The complainant ended up with no success, as the company’s interpretation of the guidelines is not considered to be in violation of the equal treatment act.

‘Indklagedes a dress code requiring ‘professional appearance’ and ‘formal appearance’ and that employees need to ‘dress accordingly’. The guidelines are, according to the enlightened enforced so that men are required to wear closed shoes and long pants, while women can show leg and feet.’

‘The general guidelines set requirements for professional and formal attire for both male and female employees. Indklagedes the dress code was after it informed introduced as a result of that, the respondent was transferred to be owned by an international private equity fund, where international customers and partners visiting the indklagedes open plan office’, is it in the decision.

the Man, who complained, working in the company’s engineering department. Since all Ligebehandlingnævnets cases are treated anonymously, so it has not been possible to find out what the company is talking about.

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