What would you do if your employer insisted you wear this t-shirt?

Case Study: Stop pretending: dressing sexy comes with a price

By Miranda Devine, Sydney Morning Herald

Good on Sarah Freeman, the 20-year-old Melbourne assistant store manager who refused to wear the provocative T-shirt her employer provided for her.
Westco Jeans had issued staff the skin-tight, V-neck T-shirts with "Stop Pretending You Don't Want Me" emblazoned across the chest. The accompanying memo instructed: "NO T-shirt equals NO work. Any team member that does not dress correctly will be sent home."
Freeman was sent home last weekend for refusing to wear the T-shirt after a customer made lewd comments and stared at her breasts. "I said, 'Hello'," she told The Age newspaper, "and he said hello to my face, and then he had a good look at my chest and said, 'Well, hell-o', and I ran away."
After a public outcry, the company withdrew the T-shirts. "If you put slogans like that on a T-shirt," the federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner said, "you can't expect your staff not to be harassed."

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Youth wages: What do you think?

IKEA, the retail chain, has reached an agreement with the union to do away with youth wages. Soon all their staff will be paid at adult wages - that's good news for the nearly 200 staff who are under 21.

Junior wages - is when young people get paid different rates according to their age until 21. This is a hot topic with much debate.

On one side, some say junior wages are unfair and discriminate against people because of their age. They say people should be paid according to their skills and the job they can do. Others are concerned that young people are dismissed from jobs as they get older, rather than because of their performance.

On the other side, employers says youth wages help create jobs for inexperienced young people. They say without lower wages they might not employ as many young people. Read our story about IKEA and youth wages.

What do you think? Are youth wages good for young people because they make them cheaper to hire? Or are youth wages a rip-off and age discrimination? Have your say, click on comment below ..

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