In my Texas company, nowhere in the company policy is it stated that no one can wear open toed shoes, and the current status quo has plenty of women wearing sandals and heels of all kinds.
I'm a guy and was wearing open toed shoes on this day in a men's restroom at work. Someone of managerial authority has claimed he will raise the issue on account of “safety”, even though we weren't in an area that required PPE or steel toed shoes and is not concerned with women doing the same thing, hence why I believe I might have a discriminatory case based on my gender.
Google is only giving me the boilerplate Texas law that you can't be fired based on your gender. Can anyone point to any Texas state laws or incidents wherein women were allowed to wear open toed shoes but specifically not men?
The safety areas requiring PPE and closed shoes is 1 floor down from the men's room where the incident took place, so I can't imagine anyone successfully arguing that “safety” was at risk.
If my employment were threatened over this, that would be grounds for contacting a labor lawyer, yes?