As Air France resumes flights to Iran after an 8-year hiatus, the airline is telling female crew members to wear pants instead of dresses on the plane, and don jackets and headscarves before stepping off.
Many union-represented flight attendants are not thrilled with this requirement, The Guardian reports, arguing the attire should be optional.
“They are forcing us to wear an ostentatious religious symbol. We have to let the girls choose what they want to wear,” one union leader said. “Those that don’t want to must be able to say they don’t want to work on those flights.”
Air France will run three flights daily to Tehran starting April 17, now that economic sanctions against the government were lifted in accordance with the international nuclear deal.
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