A London temp worker employed as a receptionist was sent home without pay after she refused to wear high heels for her job.
Nicola Thorp said she showed up for her first day for work at the accounting firm PwC wearing flats, when she was told that the dress code required that she wear high heels between 2 and 4 inches.
When she laughed at the request, she was sent home without pay.
“I said ‘if you can give me a reason as to why wearing flats would impair me to do my job today, then fair enough’, but they couldn’t,” Thorp told BBC Radio.
In fact, Thorp said that high heels would hamper her work.
