Uniform For 1

kneeler

Can an employer with one employee insist on a uniform? A friend of mine has been out of work for about 4 months. She has now been offered a secretarial job. She attended for interview and after three days was contacted by the boss who is a professional. She would be the only employee. He told her that wearing a uniform would be a requirement. He says that she will have to buy the uniform herself and he will re-imburse half of the cost over 6 months. The uniform consists of a navy skirt suit with white blouse.
Most of the time she will be typing and will hardly ever meet anybody. Has anybody else had this experience?

tenchi-fan

The employer is perfectly entitled to set a dress code/uniform.
Pretty generous that he is reimbursing her 50%.

castie

Agreed.

My dress code is a full suit and I dont get any subsidies.

Milk & Honey

Isn't there supposed to be a trousers option for females?

ElleEm

kneeler wrote: »

Can an employer with one employee insist on a uniform? A friend of mine has been out of work for about 4 months. She has now been offered a secretarial job. She attended for interview and after three days was contacted by the boss who is a professional. She would be the only employee. He told her that wearing a uniform would be a requirement. He says that she will have to buy the uniform herself and he will re-imburse half of the cost over 6 months. The uniform consists of a navy skirt suit with white blouse.
Most of the time she will be typing and will hardly ever meet anybody. Has anybody else had this experience?

tenchi-fan wrote: »

The employer is perfectly entitled to set a dress code/uniform.
Pretty generous that he is reimbursing her 50%.

I would have thought that if a specific uniform was required, that the employer had to provide it.

CarMe

I think this sounds totally fair actually. When I wore a uniform for work it was provided for me but I got deducted I think 40cent a week for it from my paypack.

tenchi-fan

ElleEm wrote: »

I would have thought that if a specific uniform was required, that the employer had to provide it.

No.

I've often seen t-shirts being provided, but the likes of dark trousers, black shoes, white shirts, etc, are almost always provided by the employee themselves.

It's more a dress code than a uniform actually.

Irish_Elect_Eng

I think that the only time that the employer is required to provide work-wear is when it is safety related PPE.