{"id":1447,"date":"2018-04-06T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2018-04-06T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:47:39","slug":"proposed-mandatory-high-heels-bill-called-a-step-in-the-right-direction-by-industry-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Proposed mandatory high heels bill called a step in the right direction by industry workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1114 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/office-heels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>From the Winnipeg CTV news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some in the restaurant industry are welcoming a proposed bill that if passed, would stop employers from mandating workers wear high heels.<\/p>\n<p>Bill 219, the Workplace Safety and Health Amendment Act, says an employer must not require a worker to wear footwear that &#8220;is not of a design, construction and material appropriate to the protection required for the worker&#8217;s work or does not allow the worker to safely perform their work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine introduced the private member\u2019s bill, and referred to mandatory heels as discrimination in the workplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.ctvnews.ca\/proposed-mandatory-high-heels-bill-called-a-step-in-the-right-direction-by-industry-workers-1.3873423\">https:\/\/winnipeg.ctvnews.ca\/proposed-mandatory-high-heels-bill-called-a-step-in-the-right-direction-by-industry-workers-1.3873423<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Winnipeg CTV news article: Some in the restaurant industry are welcoming a proposed bill that if passed, would stop employers from mandating workers wear high heels. Bill 219, the Workplace Safety and Health Amendment Act, says an employer must not require a worker to wear footwear that &#8220;is not of a design, construction and material appropriate to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,77,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}