Temp worker sent home from PwC office for not wearing heels

A young employee claims she was sent home without pay after refusing to don a pair of heels during work.

Nicola Thorp was working as a receptionist in PwC’s corporate offices in London when she was approached by a supervisor who informed her that her flat shoes were not appropriate work attire. The manager then asked that she return to work wearing two to four inch heels, according to the Evening Standard. 

Thorp, who was employed as a temp by PwC’s outsourced firm Portico, claims that she was then laughed at after deeming the demand sexist and discriminatory, she explained to the Evening Standard.

Thorp then alleges that she was sent home without pay after refusing to leave work to buy a new pair of heeled shoes.