A couple of readers of our blog post yesterday relating to employer dress and grooming policies helpfully added a couple of points about an employer’s legitimate health and safety concerns,
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“Look Policy” Of Abercrombie & Fitch To Be Reviewed By Supreme Court
Way back on July 29, 2011 we wrote that an Oklahoma jury had awarded $20,000 in damages to a devout Muslim job applicant refused hiring by Abercrombie & Fitch when
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Religious Nazirite With “More Hair Than Solomon” Denied Job: Employer Refused To Take Hair Sample From Beard For Drug Test
Discrimination based upon religion is in the news, we said on August 24th, after the EEOC sued a Food Lion store in North Carolina for refusing to accommodate, and firing,
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Employers Must Attempt To Accommodate Religious Dress And Grooming Practices
The EEOC has just announced a new lawsuit on what has become a familiar topic – the alleged refusal of an employer, an Alabama nursing home, to accommodate a Muslim
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Dress Codes, Dreadlocks And Dagga
In our post of March 7th we said that “employment decisions based upon tattoos, certain headwear or other garb, and grooming habits may, in fact, run afoul of Title
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EEOC’s “Fish In A Barrel Shoot” Ends The Summer
Chalk up another direct hit for the EEOC – one more ADA lawsuit filed against a health care provider. Feel free to go back to our numerous posts about
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Readers Weigh In on Tennessee Judge’s Dress Code for Female Attorneys
We received a lot of comments from readers about our June 21, 2013 post reporting that Tennessee Judge Royce Taylor had created a dress code for female attorneys. It seems
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Tennessee Judge Creates Dress Code for Female Attorneys
The ABA Journal and the Tennessean has reported that Tennessee Judge Royce Taylor has created a dress code for female attorneys. I have to admit that when I first saw
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No Shirt, No Shoes, No Bra = No Job?
I started the "Fun with Employment Law" posts mainly to provide some entertainment, but the inaugural post has actually generated a thoughtful response — and one that I thought warranted comment.
I Guess We’re Not Preaching to the Choir
We have blogged on multiple occasions recently about religious accommodation issues and the blunders made by employers in dealing with these requests (see August 23rd blog for example). Although these