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All customer-facing staff at Tangs can don religious headgear while at work, if they choose to do so. The change took effect yesterday (Aug 21).
They will join their corporate office and back-of-house colleagues, who already have the flexibility to wear religious headgear.
In response to queries from The Straits Times, Tangs said that the standardisation of its dress code will apply to both employees and external brand partners of the department store.
“We have made an immediate change to ensure a policy that uniformly respects all our employees and our brand partners,” Tangs told ST.
On Thursday morning, President Halimah Yacob condemned in strong terms discrimination at the workplace, and said it is particularly disturbing, as it deprives the person affected from earning a living.
This is especially so given that Covid-19 has heightened worries over jobs and livelihoods, and incidents of discrimination “exacerbate anxieties and people feel threatened”.
“Discrimination of any form and against anyone has no place at all in our society,” she said.
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