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The Eiffel Tower asked female employees to stay away when it hosted a Hindu group on September 5, triggering employees to launch a strike on September 7.
Just after the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France was accused of sex discrimination and requiring female staff to avoid a visit by a Hindu group, the head of the company responsible for operating the landmark will leave at the end of this year.
The one who is about to leave is Patrick Branco Ruivo, general manager of the Société d’Exploitation de la tour Eiffel, who was appointed at the end of 2018.
The "Eiffel Tower Operating Company" issued a statement on the 29th, claiming that these operational errors resulted in "female staff being excluded from the visit that day. This situation is unacceptable." The company's chairman, Ariel Weil, also said it has required measures and training programs to promote gender equality.
The "Eiffel Tower Operating Company" was previously exposed by an investigation by an independent agency. It made a series of operational mistakes in the reception of the Hindu group's visit on September 5.
According to information, when a delegation of about 100 people from BAPS, a global religious and civic organization of the Hindu Swaminarayan sect, visited the Eiffel Tower that day, the female staff of the tower were asked to avoid it.
On September 7, the Eiffel Tower employee union launched a strike to protest "unacceptable" instructions from management, and the Eiffel Tower was closed. It is understood that the so-called "unacceptable" instruction was that management told employees that female staff should not have contact with the BAPS delegation, which caused anger among employees.
BAPS clarified through a statement that the organization "never asked (Eiffel Tower management) to hide, transfer or exclude female staff from (the organization's) visits" and only stated in advance the religious practice of its monks.
The 137-year-old Eiffel Tower, which attracts 7 million tourists every year, has also been closed due to strikes before. In February 2024, the 330-meter-tall Eiffel Tower was closed for 6 days due to a strike triggered by labor disputes.

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