Size discrimination in workplace

[GEC44]

Looking at another current thread on here regarding being weighed in the office, it's made me want to post about my employer.

The role is a uniformed role.

New uniform was recently issued and a memo went out a few weeks beforehand to ask any female members of staff size 18 or above to attend a measuring session in a meeting room, as the uniform supplier doesn't go past size 16 and so anything bigger would need to be specially made.

I found this to be quite humiliating. Fair enough if the supplier doesn't go past a certain size, but the employer could have been a bit more discreet about it rather than getting all the size 18 plus ladies in for a "measuring session".

How ridiculous, size 16 is the average size of a woman in the UK. They need to stop using cheap suppliers. All they need to know is what size each staff member is.

I do feel like you’re looking to be offended. I could be offended that I don’t get a made to measure uniform. I do a uniformed job and trust me the fit is appalling, uncomfortable and unflattering.

DD is size 10 and always has to pay to get her issued uniform altered.

Just take this as a plus (no pun intended).