Pro-palestine-Gesundheitsarbeiter drohen das Vertrauen der NHS über die Kleiderordnung zu verklagen
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/pro-palestine-health-workers-threaten-to-sue-nhs-trust-over-dress-code-lggz86w09
Von insomnimax_99
Pro-palestine-Gesundheitsarbeiter drohen das Vertrauen der NHS über die Kleiderordnung zu verklagen
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/pro-palestine-health-workers-threaten-to-sue-nhs-trust-over-dress-code-lggz86w09
Von insomnimax_99
11 Kommentare
When you’re on the clock, you’re being paid to be a representative of the company or organisation you work for and should only be representing causes that approve off. I would argue in the NHS being a public sector body that serves every member of society, no causes or political statements should be viable as they’re all likely to make someone uncomfortable. You wear your provided uniform and name badge and that’s it. It’s not a US theme restaurant, you don’t need flair.
Sack all of them and make them pay the legal costs.
This is not a question of politics, but professionalism.
I’d be surprised if any employer was happy with employees wearing political symbols whilst working
Outside of work hours they can wear whatever they like
it depends how even handed it is, if you can’t wear a Ukraine, Israel, US, Russia, England, Scotland flag or emblem then maybe ok, but if some idiot comes along and puts Palestine, England and Ukraine in some arbitrary list then it isn’t fair. I kind of suspect the second one.
They should go ahead and sue, I’d like to see the outcome. I’m pretty sure we all know this is a sensible regulation and know exactly why these guys want an exception to be made for them, it shouldn’t be tolerated.
I’m beginning to think that a lot of these pro-palestine activists aren’t the sharpest. First they vandalize an aircraft at a base thats only role in the conflict has been to air drop aid and now this, which is somehow ever stupider.
Could almost believe that someone is planting idiots to discredit the whole, genuinely worthy, cause.
You can see why GBNews, telegraph etc have so much opinion led content. Issues like this are perfect fodder to exploit for us/them division.
Just wear your standard uniform. It’s your work wear. We don’t want your opinion in polyester.
I wonder how happy they’d be if their colleagues came in wearing [a stop the boats t-shirt](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reform-UK-Stop-Boats-T-Shirt/dp/B0F99LDV4X).
You don’t do political activism on the clock, no matter what your cause is.
I work in the public sector (not NHS though) and our staff aren’t allowed to wear anything that displays a national flag or signals support for political causes – this goes for both customer-facing and non-customer facing staff. Our organisation, like the NHS, is not political and is supposed to be a welcoming environment for everyone. There have of course been a few complaints from staff and sometimes someone will try to sneak through a pin badge or something but in general everyone adheres to it as they understand the reasons behind it
>They have claimed that the dress code prohibits staff from wearing or displaying items that might align with a “particular nation, political party, one side in a conflict or causes that are not directly linked to and supported by the trust or the NHS”.
Fair.
As long as it’s enforced equally (which I must assume they do when somebody wear a Israel flag, a Ukranian flag, a Reform tag,… ), that’s a perfectly logical rule.
Israel is a genocidal country, but that’s a hospital; taking care of patients comes before your reivindications (as just and humane as they are).
Employers set the dress code in their organisation, with allowance for religious wear.
Any attempt at suing over this should be dismissed with prejudice. It isn’t endangering their wellbeing, it isn’t inappropriate, and especially in a health setting, your outfit has to be appropriate for it.
To play devil’s advocate for a bit here: if they win, would they complain any staff that then wear a Pro-Israel flag is discriminatory or hateful? That would open up so many cans of worms.
I’m not sure how the policy is discrimination if it was equally applied