Ties at work – discrimination cases disagree

Two separate cases have simply served to further confuse the issue of dress codes at work. Both concern the issue of sex discrimination and the wearing of ties. In the first, a civil servant won a sex discrimination case over a dress code at his place of work, a Jobcentre Plus. It stated that he must wear a collar and tie to work, but he claimed that this was sex discrimination, as women at the workplace were allowed to wear T-shirts and football shirts. Employees could be fined part of their salary for failing to follow the dress code.