{"id":917,"date":"2017-03-20T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=917"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:30:49","slug":"no-more-high-heels-b-c-looks-to-end-gender-based-footwear-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"No more high heels: B.C. looks to end gender-based footwear requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-918 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/highheels-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/highheels-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/highheels-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/highheels-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/highheels.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From the CTV news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employers in B.C. may no longer be allowed to force their female workers to wear high heels, with politicians offering support for a private member&#8217;s bill to ban the dress code on safety grounds.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is looking to make it illegal for businesses to enforce footwear requirements based on a person&#8217;s gender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a no brainer. I can&#8217;t think of a compelling argument anywhere to say restaurant owners should be allowed to require women to wear high heels in a restaurant,&#8221; Weaver told The Canadian Press. &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t make sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new rules wouldn&#8217;t ban heels from all workplaces, but an employer requiring staff to wear them must have the same requirement for all staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/mobile\/canada\/no-more-high-heels-b-c-looks-to-end-gender-based-footwear-requirements-1.3325380\">https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/mobile\/canada\/no-more-high-heels-b-c-looks-to-end-gender-based-footwear-requirements-1.3325380<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CTV news article: Employers in B.C. may no longer be allowed to force their female workers to wear high heels, with politicians offering support for a private member&#8217;s bill to ban the dress code on safety grounds. B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is looking to make it illegal for businesses to enforce footwear requirements based on a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}