"Indicate ethnicity and sexual orientation," Burberry shock questionnaire to employees. It's a controversy

" A shock questionnaire in which questions are also asked about ethnicity and badual orientation". Sender the London multinational Burberry a haute couture designer best known for trenches, bags and scarves. The recipients of the employees all over the world – in Italy there are about 500 shops and corners present in the shops – who received it in the business mail. The complaint is from Cobas, Italy the only union signatory of the second-level supplementary contract. No comments from the company. The workers will demonstrate in front of Rinascente di Roma where there are two corners of Burberry

"Today – explains Francesco Iacovone, of the national executive of the Cobas – we met John Scaramuzza, New Manager Emea for Burberry Australian, arrived from London We asked him to immediately stop distributing the questionnaire and to cancel any trace for the many who l & # 39; have already filled in. They have not accepted. It seems that they do not realize the seriousness of the incident they think that it is enough to have provided the opportunity for the worker not to respond.We evaluate how to proceed, we plan to report to the guarantor of privacy To protect workers, we warned our members and delegates contact employees to invite them not to open the questionnaire either once the tab gets into the headlines for incorrect behavior towards the workers.

The questionnaire, which would have been completed by more than half of Burberry's employees begins with questions about the valuation of the company with the possibility of choosing between different levels of judgment and satisfaction in his work (place of work, time, compensation). Once the answers are completed, the personal information is requested: "Do you identify as bad, gay, bibadual, transgender or queer? ". And again: "specify your ethnic origin"; the choices that offer the drop-down menu for the union "are aberrant: Asian / Pacific Islander – Black or African American – Hispanic or Latin – Middle Eastern – Native American or Native American – White – Other".