Photo of female server's bloody feet highlights restaurant's unfair uniform policy

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In this restaurant, being a female server is a one-way ticket to bleeding feet.

Nicola Gavins, a makeup artist in Alberta, Canada, shared a photo of her friend’s blistered toes, cut up from the high heels she wears as part of her server’s uniform. 

The woman’s socks are soaked through with blood, but she has to keep wearing the injurious pumps — or she could lose her job at a JOEY restaurant in Edmonton.

“Their [the restaurant’s] policy is still that female staff wear heels unless medically restricted,” Gavins wrote on Facebook“My friend’s feet were bleeding to the point she lost a toenail and she was still … berated by the shift manager for changing into flats.” Read more…

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