#Junior miss pageant france 8 code#

'You can consider a beauty pageant as has-been,' the editor of Causeur magazine Elisabeth LГ©vy told Sud Radio on Tuesday. Miss France has yet to react to news of the complaint, but there is little doubt the programme is popular.ДЁ.6 million people tuned in to the 2020 edition, according to producers EndemolShine.ДЄnd not everyone is supportive of the feminists. In 2019, France's High Council for gender equality (HCE), a consultative body responsible for advising the government, qualified the Miss France contest as an вЂњ archaic caricatureвЂќ. The plaintiffs point to a judgement in 2013 when a former contestant on Mister France sued for similar reasons.

#Junior miss pageant france 8 code#

The case, filed at a labour court in the Paris suburb of Bobigny, will therefore hinge on whether magistrates recognise Miss France contestants as employed by the organisers and TV company вЂ“ in which case there is a case for breach of the labour code вЂ“ or whether they are considered volunteers.Д¬ontestants do not sign an employment contract as such, but they do carry out activities for which they receive gifts. The French labour code forbids companies from discriminating on the basis of вЂњmorals, age, family status or physical appearance,вЂќ Violaine De Filippis-Abate, a lawyer for Osez le fГ©minisme told RMC radio.

The three plaintiffs, who have not been named, told Le Monde they had been forced to withdraw from the pageant because they smoke in public, are not tall enough and have been photographed nude. Miss Guadeloupe disqualified from competition due to topless charity photos The plaintiffs argue that the companies oblige candidates to bend to restrictions, even outside of rehearsals or recordings, which are in breach of French labour law.ДЄspiring beauty queens must abstain from drinking alcohol or taking illicit substances in public and in general behave in a way that is 'not contrary to morals, public order or the spirit of a pageant based on values of elegance'.Д¬andidates are also required to be more than 1.70 metres tall, single, and 'representative of beautyвЂќ вЂ“ meaning for example no tatoos or body piercings.ДЇailure to satisfy these standards means they can be disqualified. The complaint is targetting both the Miss France company and Endemol Production вЂ“ which makes the annual TV programme screened on the privately-owned TF1 channel. 'Trying to raise awareness is no longer enough, we've decided to use legal means to advance the cause of women.' 'Despite protesting every year against a competition that drives sexist values, nothing ever changes,' Alyssa Ahrabare, head of the organisation, told Le Mondenewspaper. Osez-le-FГ©minisme (Dare to be Feminist) said it had filed a complaint with the state labour tribunal on behalf of the former contestants after previous complaints about the annual pageant had proven ineffective. Osez le fГ©minisme, a leading feminist organisation in France, has joined forces with three failed Miss France candidates to take the beauty contest to court for alleged discrimination in the criteria it uses to select participants.