PARIS (AFP) – A number of female Air France cabin crew are resisting an airline ruling that they should wear a headscarf while in Tehran, when flights to the Iranian capital resume on April 17, a union representative told AFP on Saturday.
“Every day we have calls from worried female cabin crew who tell us that they do not want to wear the headscarf,” said Christophe Pillet of the SNPNC union, which is asking Air France management to make it a voluntary measure.
Company chiefs had sent staff a memo informing that female staff would be required “to wear trousers during the flight with a loose fitting jacket and a scarf covering their hair on leaving the plane”, Pillet said.
According to Pillet, management has raised the possibility of “penalties” against anyone not observing the dress code.
Air France told AFP that all air crew were “obliged like other foreign visitors to respect the laws of the countries to which they travelled”.
Source: AFP, April 3
