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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Phoebe Jobling & Alex Grove

Howard from Halifax adverts says he 'wouldn't wear' pronoun name badge

Halifax has come under fire this week following a decision to make a subtle change to their staff name badges. The bank has now introduced pronouns onto the name tags of each of its employees.

A picture shared by Halifax on Twitter showed an employee with 'she', 'her' and 'hers' written underneath her name 'Gemma', alongside the caption "Pronouns matter. #ItsAPeopleThing."

But after some people hit out at the controversial move, the bank caused a stir after telling its customers that they are free to close their accounts down if they disagree with their values.

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