The directive says workers should not be “subjected to any conduct related to their sex, which violates their dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment”. reports the Kent News.
Godfrey Page, from Dover, is the chairman of the Guild of Master Victuallers, which represents 400 pubs nationally. Mr Page is dismayed at the introduction of the new rules, which he says will be impossible to enforce when it comes to barmaids.
New laws coming into force tomorrow to protect workers from being sexually harassed by customers have been slammed by pub landlords as “political correctness gone mad”.
He said bar staff and landlords were more than capable of handling most awkward customers, without the need for more red tape.
“Landlords already have enough to worry about with stopping people smoking, keeping under-age drinkers out and preventing drug dealing,” he said.
“Now, he faces potentially massive fines if a customer calls his barmaid ‘luv’. It’s crazy and I just don’t understand it.”
Andrew Aves, from Canterbury, is the Kent regional organiser for the Federation of Small Businesses. He said: “Who dreams this stuff up – which planet do they come from?
The Government’s Commission for Equality and Human Rights said it would monitor the enforcement of the laws. So more non-jobs for snoops then.
Had enough of this crap yet ?
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