Hi all! I’ve written in before about the harassment at Planet Fitness Gym, and how the company has ignored requests to form a harassment policy. But I’m writing in today to ask for your help in persuading them to do so.
Planet Fitness Gym has multiple locations in all but three of the United States and their unwillingness to form a policy against harassment affects any member or guest that is currently or will ever work out at any of their facilities nationwide.
I feel that businesses have an obligation to make sure that their establishments are safe and comfortable for both men and women. We all deserve to reach our fitness goals and fill our New Year’s resolutions in peace. With every signature collected below via change.org an email gets sent directly to the CEO and VP telling them to form and train their staff on a harassment policy and to stop hiding evidence of harassment.
Please sign today and tell Planet Fitness that they need to make their facilities comfortable for EVERYONE!
– Earth Angel
Location: Elmwood Park, IL
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Sue Henderson says
Well done, Planet Fitness. Through social networking you now have a worldwide reputation for disregarding the right of half your customers to be safe and free from harassment.
Please will you draw up an anti-harassment strategy immediately (with women making up the majority of those who create it), feed it down to your staff with appropriate training on dealing with harassers and protecting women customers, and set up prominent signs at all your facilities stating that harassment of customers will not be tolerated, listing specific behaviours that are banned, such as whistling, catcalling, lewd comments, etc.