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Originally Posted by FireFly
As a female I can understand the desire for a longer skirt, less fitting pant, whatever. As an employee, I know that if I have to break company dress code, I'd better have a pretty good reason for it or I'd better not take the job.
Two things here: she didn't have an issue with the pants for 5 years. She went into the job knowing that there was a dress code which she abided by for years.
The other thing is that companies have to accomodate a person's religion. Where this gets sticky though, and why I think the company will win, is because they do and were abiding by her religion by allowing her to wear the pants, which she didn't have a problem with. Obviously, the pants fit with her religious code or this would have been an issue 5 years ago.
All that said, it's a damn skirt. The company should just get over it. She paid for the skirt to be made from her own pocket. It's not like she put the company out by having one specially made, she did it herself.
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Apparently she did have an issue but chose the slacks over the skirt because the skirt was more of an issue.
To me it sounds like she found a compromise, asked her supervisor if it was a suitable compromise, he agreed, 7 months after the fact, she was suspended without pay.
I suspect this is an inside thing, some employee ratting on another employee, telling upper management about some problem employee. I mean who in the public would even notice a skirt is 2" longer and even if they did, who would complain about it?