Eiffel Tower Chief to Step Down over Removal of Women Staff During Hindu Group's Visit
SETE said an internal probe found operational failings and promised gender-equality training after staff strikes forced a one-day closure.
- Eiffel Tower chief Patrick Branco Ruivo will step down at the end of this year following an internal probe that revealed "operational flaws and shortcomings" led to the "unacceptable" removal of female staff during a Hindu religious group's visit.
- Earlier this month, staff at the 137-year-old landmark went on strike, condemning "professional instructions that led to female employees being sidelined, replaced and made invisible because of their sex" during a visit by the BAPS delegation.
- SETE, the operating company, acknowledged that the Hindu delegation requested limited "interactions with women" and admitted "these conditions should not have been accepted." The company promised to accept the "consequences."
- SETE president Ariel Weil told AFP, "I restate the Eiffel Tower's commitment to republican values and to the equality of men and women," while requesting gender equality training programs.
- The 330-meter tower attracts 7 million visitors annually and has faced previous industrial action, but this leadership change follows an investigation into "operational flaws and shortcomings" in managing the controversial delegation visit.
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Employees were dismissed at the beginning of September during a visit to the monument by a Hindu conservative religious group.
Eiffel Tower chief to step down over removal of women staff during Hindu group's visit
The head of the Eiffel Tower is set to step down in the wake of a controversy sparked by the removal of female workers during a private visit of the Paris landmark by members of the Hindu sect BAPS, which triggered a staff walkout earlier this month and sparked outrage in France.
Paris Eiffel Tower says chief to step down after uproar over removing women staff
Patrick Branco Ruivo, who has been in charge of the Paris landmark since 2018, would leave his job at the end of the year after an internal probe revealed that "operational flaws and shortcomings", in organising the visit by a Hindu religious group, led to the "unacceptable" removal of women staff.
The director of the company that operates the Eiffel Tower in Paris will resign at the end of the year. His position had become untenable following an incident earlier this month. He had sent female employees home at the request of a religious Hindu delegation that wanted to visit the monument.
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Eiffel Tower chief to step down after exclusion of female staff during Hindu delegation visit
PARIS (AP) — The head of the company that runs the Eiffel Tower will step down at the end of the year after female staff at the landmark building in Paris were excluded during a visit by a Hindu religious…
Paris' most famous attraction, the Eiffel Tower, was closed in early September after staff went on strike to protest discrimination against female colleagues.
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