Nicholson Letter to the CEO of Sainsbury’s re the removal of female staff toilets

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Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol has written to the CEO of Sainsbury’s expressing my growing unease at what I see as poor treatment of their female staff; exacerbated in my opinion by their removal of ladies lavatories, which obviously limits female and male staff’s personal privacy.

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What a wonderful woman.
If Sainsburys make the female toilets in my local branch open to men then I will stop using their shop.
Sick to death of all this to be honest.

I missed this. What have Sainsbury's done?

They are ignoring the laws on toilets and making them all mixed sex (staff and customers) by changing the sign on the door.

Coupe left in June. Unsurprisingly after being a shower of shite as a CEO.

I'm also sick of this shit. It's so obviously regressive. Fucking misogynists.

I'm glad I don't work for them anymore, this is getting ridiculous. I don't want to share the toilet with men, if someone is transitioning then fine. But some of the men I worked with there were pigs and openly would wank in there.

Supermarket loos are bad enough without making them mixed sex. I wonder what the thinking is behind that?

when I visited an organisation with unisex standalone toilets across all buildings I observed a few things

1. a row of eight unisex standalone toilets had a female symbol stuck with blue tack permanently on the door of the far end toilet, which the women used. the men used the others

2. in another building with unisex toilets across the various floors and outside conference and meeting rooms, a female symbol stuck with tape on a standalone unit was used by the women. It was one toilet and during 'comfort breaks', if there were more women in the conference / meeting, a queue would form and the women were late back to the meeting.

3. in another building with the restaurant, there was no female symbol stuck on any of them. All the toilets were spotlessly clean but they had 'the smell' which made me feel sick.

4. the toilets with bluetacked female symbol were never used by the men. It was an unspoken agreement. Everyone was respectful.

If the cubicle with the sign on the door was the only one with a sanitary waste bin, all the other cubicles were for men.

@Thelnebriati

If the cubicle with the sign on the door was the only one with a sanitary waste bin, all the other cubicles were for men.

They were identical. each toilet with floor to ceiling walls and doors were enclosed rooms with sanitary bin, waste bin, basin.

In Leamington Spa some time back there was a horrible rape of an 11 year old girl in the toilets in Sainsburys. You'd think they of all stores would be trying to make these places safer for women and girls, not less safe. Disgusted with them.

Are they mix-sexing the toilets in the stores too?

Particularly with the prosecution of the male employee in the women’s facilities - how could they be so utterly dumb?

Her letter raises 'your new policy of removing ladies toilets for female customers' but adds 'which I now learn affects female staff...'

This alerts us to something I didn't know as a customer. So thanks for that, Baroness. We can complain or take our business elsewhere - if there are any decent retailers left for women. Not clear what she means about the new policy affecting staff. Are they sharing customers' toilets?

What's wrong with that? I much prefer that to horrible single sex cubicles with gaps and walls made of cardboard.

Sainsbury’s are undermining safeguarding.
What the fuck? Single-sex toilets are already gender neutral. Anyone can express their gender however they want to in the toilets applicable to their biological sex.
Keep your penis out of the Ladies’

They were identical. each toilet with floor to ceiling walls and doors were enclosed rooms with sanitary bin, waste bin, basin

What's wrong with that? I much prefer that to traditional single sex cubicles

They are ignoring the laws on toilets and making them all mixed sex (staff and customers) by changing the sign on the door.

This totally unacceptable.

Personally, I have no wish to use a toilet that is used by men. Dozens of them in a day.

I don't see the necessity of mixing them up. Who is benefiting? What's the point?

Anne Sinnott's case can't come quick enough, in my opinion. The sooner companies know that it's perfectly acceptable, legal, and preferable for many, to have single sex facilities, the better

I'll be checking the customer toilets at my local store, and writing a letter to the manager if they have removed the women's toilet.