You’re sexist! Row over bar woman’s advert for a man... as he must do heavy lifting
Price wilting for wonky flowers
A SUPERMARKET chain is selling cheaper “wonky” flowers after the heatwave stopped some varieties from blooming fully.
Morrisons says it is offering the new range to stop imperfect flowers from going to waste.
Wonky bouquets will have shorter or crooked stems due to the lack of rainfall over the past few weeks.
The flowers are being sold for £3 a bunch, instead of the normal £5.
The first offering will be a British sunflowers and statice bouquet.
The move aims to help flower growers as they will be able to sell their underdeveloped blooms to the chain’s stores nationwide. Morrisons’ Drew Kirk said: “Our wonky range helps growers to reduce waste.” A WOMAN running a pub/restaurant unwittingly stirred a sexism row after deciding she needed a man to lift heavy cooking oil cans.
She advertised for a male chef – and provoked outrage.
The advert, put online by Angela Borsi, read: “Chef job! In Slug and Lettuce Bristol Harbourside. Boys first, if possible.”
She said the £8-an-hour job, for 40 to 45 hours a week, was suited to a male worker due to the heavy lifting of supplies required.
The ad was put in the Facebook group “jobs in Bristol and surrounding areas”.
One responder wrote: “Wow, if this isn’t the most sexist post I’ve seen today.”
Another asked: “Are you looking for boyfriend or chef?”
Ms Borsi said yesterday: “It’s nothing bad. I didn’t want a boyfriend.
“I have two girls in the kitchen already. One is me and the other is pregnant and we need a man for the heavy lifting, when we do an oil change.
“It involves 20-litre containers and they are heavy. That’s reason I put ‘boys first’.”
Under UK law, employers must not show gender discrimination when not essential.
Guidance from employment agency Reed says: “An employer cannot show a preference to hire someone of a particular gender without a genuine occupational requirement.
“Without one, any the language Manager Angela Borsi and the Bristol branch of Slug and Lettuce she runs in the job advert relating to gender preference could be viewed as discriminatory.
“Even with seemingly good intentions from a recruiter, such as trying to even up the gender split in the office, for example, favouring a man or woman for a particular role is generally not acceptable.”
A spokesman for the Slug and Lettuce pub chain said of Ms Borsi’s advert: “The post certainly does not reflect company policy .
“We apologise for any offence that was caused.”
He added that Ms Borsi would receive “training”.
He said: “Our management will be handling this directly to ensure that a full human resources refresher is provided and the correct recruitment procedures are adhered to.”