French bus drivers have started wearing skirts to get around their bosses’ ban on shorts in recent stifling heat.
France sweltered in temperatures up to 38C this week as the country’s weather authority warned people to be “very vigilant” for danger posed by the weather.
Bus drivers in the western city of Nantes, who belong to the CFDT union, said their uniform was “not appropriate” for such high temperatures and that they “envy women at moments like this”.Today is hottest day in June for more than 40 years
“Given that skirts are an authorised outfit in the company, we are wearing skirts,” one driver told the local Presse Océan site.Union official Gabriel Magner said: “A modern outlook would allow us to wear long shorts from time to time.
“This is a form of discrimination. Women drivers can wear skirts, but not the men. In this heatwave, the temperatures are reaching close to 50C behind our windscreens. And given we have no air conditioning on our buses, it’s unbearable.”
The bus company, Semitan, did roll out a new set of lighter summer trousers last year, it was reported, but did not appear to be moving toward allowing shorts.
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So frigging what?
A few of the local postmen here did the same thing a few years ago and for the same reasons. Jeez. It’s just clothes. Not a political statement.
The Bureaucrat Plague – Clothing Dept.
Kilts, anyone? You don’t wear ANYTHING under those and so your balls just jingle in the wind. Also, they are approved menswear.
A bus company doesn’t allow their drivers to wear shorts, so they resort to skirts?!?….WTF!!….has the entire world lost its mind? Just let the drivers wear the shorts for the hot days – get over it.
Macron will have them all wearing burkas soon enough.
Happens all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2bPoyRiu4