Rejected petition Let construction workers wear shorts on a building site if they want.

Working in the building game is hard enough let alone in baking hot weather or closed in a newly built office block with no air conditioning or air flow for that matter. It should be a choice of what you want to wear instead of sweating beyond belief.

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It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Date submitted 26 July 2018
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