How do I prove this Sex Discrimination?

[mumstaxi]

I made an appointment with a tradesman who refused to come and see me when he found out that my husband wouldn't be there. He says it's company policy to see all partners together... He then re-phrased this to "all decision makers". I'm OUTRAGED and HUMILIATED. Do I have a case for complaint and how do I prove it?

[sir_gilmour]

mumstaxi welcome to The Consumer Action Group community.

 

You haven't received any replies to your problem yet so you might be better off posting your story again directly in the sub-forum which deals with your kind of situation. You will get lots of support there.

 

Also, spend some time looking round the forum. Once you understand the layout, you will be able to get best use from this Consumer Community. It is a big forumm and may take some time. But it will be worth doing.

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[honeybee13]

Hello there.

 

I'm not sure if it's discrimination or not. Are you thinking of buying something that needs you both to sign? In the past, this has happened to us a couple of times. I don't know how they stand legally, but there may be a reason.

 

My best, HB

[YorkyLad]

I know someone who worked making door to door appointments for a company that had this policy.

 

You buy one gnome... You get one gnome free.

 

When the sales rep gets to the house he will ask if the home owner is there. If there is two they both have to be there. Not due to any matter of law but due to as soon as the sales rep steps inside the house that is the moment that the door to door appointment maker will be paid (regardless of whether the sales rep makes a sale).

 

Then it is just to avoid someone getting the free quote and then saying "I'll discuss it with my wife" or one of the two signing to pay and the other cancelling it at a later date.

 

I'm almost certain when they apply this policy they would apply it equally to both men and women (in that they wouldn't allow your husband to agree to buy it without you been present too). Also if it was a same sex couple wanting to buy gnomes for the back garden, therefore getting their front gnomes free, they will still require the other partner to be present.

 

So it is not an issue of what sex you are.

 

and those gnomes are twice as expensive as everywhere else. You really do not get any gnomes free. Take it from me

[maroondevo52]

Thread moved to General Consumer Issues Forum.

[Amy100]

But OP specifically said tradesman which would suggest electrician, plumber or similar.

[Kraken1]

Do I have a case for complaint

 

No.

[mumstaxi]

True. Am guessing its all in their delivery. How they put it... Cheers.

[mumstaxi]

Isn't the word 'partner' commonly used to denote husband or wife as well as same sex partner?

[ihateyes]

no case.....

 

Going into someones house, you dont know their mental state. you dont know what they may accuse the other of doing.

 

I work for a gas company and regulary we would get women asking for women only engineer,

when i worked for a taxi company, again women wouldve asked for women only drivers.... is this discrimination???

I know one driver got freaked out that baly he bought a hackney at great expense, all because one day a women got in the car, rubbed her hands over his head/face touched her breast and claimed if she ddnt get a free fare she would report for sexual assualt.

 

Cery touchy subject, possibly something like this has happeed with the tradesman before therefore he will only enter when both 'partners' are there.

[mr_zero]

Isn't the word 'partner' commonly used to denote husband or wife as well as same sex partner?

Not where I live, though it is used to denote fellow lawyers or accountants in a partnership.

 

In a domestic setting, surely it denotes a civil partnership and, as those are not available to heterosexual couples, for you to be in a civil partnership, you'd need to be either bisexual or a ?.

 

A male acquaintance underwent gender reassignment surgery to make him resemble a woman so that he could become a civil partner to his girlfriend.

[honeybee13]

Not where I live, though it is used to denote fellow lawyers or accountants in a partnership.

 

In a domestic setting, surely it denotes a civil partnership and, as those are not available to heterosexual couples, for you to be in a civil partnership, you'd need to be either bisexual or a ?.

 

A male acquaintance underwent gender reassignment surgery to make him resemble a woman so that he could become a civil partner to his girlfriend.

 

Hello everyone. I have to say this seems a crazy argument to me. Mr_zero, are you in the UK? And has a post that you put here yesterday disappeared?

 

I was under the impression that 'partner' was used so as not to assume that people living together were married, which could be seen as preducial by some.

 

Could I point out that the OP doesn't mention 'partner', just decision maker which is genderless AFAIAA.

 

My best, HB