The Eiffel Tower was closed connected Monday aft unit went connected onslaught implicit pistillate workers being removed for the sojourn of a Hindu spiritual group, workers and absorption said.
A delegation of astir 100 radical linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) radical visited the landmark successful the French superior connected Saturday.
Staff national typical Diane Davoine says arsenic they arrived astatine the monument, women were told to move.
"During the sojourn of this delegation, women were asked to permission their places of enactment successful bid to spot men there," she told Reuters. Davoine besides said absorption had since apologised to workers implicit the incident.
"So that perfectly does not spell down good with the employees, with women obviously, who are each humiliated by what happened, by the mode immoderate were treated," Davoine said.
She added: "Tensions mounted implicit the weekend, truthful this morning, the employees decided to meet: first, to unfastened a dialog with management, and second, to guarantee that women are ne'er treated this mode astatine the institution again."
Société d'Exploitation de la circuit Eiffel (SETE), the institution that operates the monument successful Paris, confirmed the delegation had asked the sojourn beryllium organised to bounds "interactions with women", according to the AFP quality agency.
The steadfast told AFP that "these conditions should not person been accepted".
They added they "were not successful enactment with SETE's values, nor with the principles of equality betwixt men and women".
SETE president Ariel Weil said: "It is intelligibly not an acceptable practice.
"I restate the Eiffel Tower's committedness to enactment values and to the equality of men and women."
The BBC has contacted the Union Confédération générale du travail (CGT) for a response.
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