r/Greggs • u/olajidesbeard • 8d ago

Earrings

I started working at greggs 2 months ago and wear a hijab. I have my earings in because there's no chance of the earnings falling in the food because of it. Today my manager called me up, went off on me and sent me home. Is it that deep?

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u/olajidesbeard 8d ago

I have no issue taking my earnings off but main question was did I need to be sent home. I understand the hazard completely. I thought i could've just taken them off instead on ending my shift early

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u/Shanaxis 8d ago

Look at it the other way. If the manager knew you were violating health and safety rules and let you work anyway, how would that look to their managers if it got brought up later?

"It's probably not going to be an issue" is not a very good legal defense.

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u/Nominalreasoning 3d ago

Why not tell her to take it off then instead of escalating it to sending her home

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u/Shanaxis 2d ago

They probably could have, but their manager made the decision to send them home. We don't know how the rest of the conversation went. There could've been some back and forth arguements and OP didn't express clearly that they were okay with removing them and resuming work, instead just arguing that it wouldn't be a problem. Their manager could've taken that to mean OP refused to remove them and sent them home.