"A modern outlook would allow us to wear long shorts from time to time", said Magner.
So spare a though for drivers, particularly those in the western city of Nantes, which have had their request to wear shorts to work turned down.
Two of them, Didier Sauvetre and Gabriel Magner of the CFDT union, appeared in a video put online by Presse Océan to complain about the ban and saying the drivers' uniform was not suitable for hot summer weather.
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They also argued that lower body wear is nearly irrelevant anyway, since drivers' legs are barely ever in view of their passengers anyway. "Given that skirts are an authorised outfit in the company, we are wearing skirts".
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One rep claimed that the temperature inside a bus driving in full sunlight can reach as high as 50C (122F).
Semitan did take a step towards a compromise in summer past year when it rolled out a new line in "summer trousers" for drivers, that were lighter.
With temperatures soaring above 30C, drivers had asked bosses at bus and tram network Semitan if they could wear bermudas, cut-off pantacourt or shorts and were refused. "And given we have no air conditioning on our buses, it's unbearable". As a result, the company changed their dress code to state that men in the office would be allowed to wear three-quarter-length shorts in black, navy, and beige only.
The bare-legged protest comes after United Kingdom call center worker Joey Barge was sent home for wearing shorts.
One mum of an older teen said: 'One of the boys did get in trouble today - because it was too short'.
In 2013, bus drivers in Marseille were set to strike over uniform pants that drivers claimed were too tight and restrictive.
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