‘No T-shirt, No Work’

SYDNEY – A jeans retailer outfitted all its employees with a T-shirt saying ‘Stop Pretending You Don’t Want Me’ – but shop clerks soon stopped pretending they wanted to wear it.

Female clerks said the shirt drew sexual harassment from customers, but were met initially by a ‘No T-shirt, No Work’ stance from the company. One woman told a Melbourne radio station she was sent home for refusing to wear the shirt.After the Victoria state government entered the spat on the employees’ side, the company backtracked late on Monday, deciding the t-shirt was optional.But the Westco retailer defended the slogan, calling it “a quirky statement reflecting the fact that Westco jeans products are pleasing, in demand, and difficult to resist,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday.- Nampa-AFPOne woman told a Melbourne radio station she was sent home for refusing to wear the shirt.After the Victoria state government entered the spat on the employees’ side, the company backtracked late on Monday, deciding the t-shirt was optional.But the Westco retailer defended the slogan, calling it “a quirky statement reflecting the fact that Westco jeans products are pleasing, in demand, and difficult to resist,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday.- Nampa-AFP