'Tired & unpresentable' | Worker wins tribunal after manager demanded she wear make-up

Worker wins tribunal after manager demanded she wear make-up

Telling female employees to wear make-up is considered sexual harassment, a tribunal ruled after a waitress at a Soho restaurant was told she should wear some because she looks “tired and unpresentable”.

Jahnayde Henry, a 24-year-old former waitress at the Soho, London restaurant Tattu, sued the restaurant after her manager demanded she wear make-up in her following shift, making her feel “undermined”.

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