Target has changed its dress code to allow more of its approximately 440,000 US-based workers to wear shorts as extreme heat makes retail and other jobs harder.

Target now allows employees to wear mid-thigh or longer shorts and skirts. Workers are claiming that the updated handbook was sent out nationwide last Wednesday.

A Target worker revealed a new change in the company’s dress code: Employees are now permitted to wear shorts.

In past years, Target employees could wear jeans on some weekends and holidays, but this is the first permanent dress code change.

Jeans, polos and sleeveless blouses are OK under Target Corp.'s new dress code, but there's still a long list of off-limit looks.

Denise Kendrick (pictured), an employee of the store in Fargo, said she was fired on November 16 over a dress code issue.