A government department is embroiled in a peculiar row over whether staff can wear ‘fetish gear’ to work following complaints from civil servants about a transgender colleague, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Employees in the Department for Work and Pensions are objecting to the ‘highly inappropriate’ workwear of a fellow official which last week prompted a Tory peer to ask the Government about its ‘policy on civil servants wearing fetish clothing in the workplace’.
It is understood that Baroness Jenkin of Kennington tabled the unusual question to reflect her general concerns about the dress code and also in response to the specific issues raised by civil servants about one Whitehall diversity ambassador.
