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
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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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“The Bias Against Black Hair Is As Old As America Itself”
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A hairstyle can reflect or be part of a sincerely held religious belief or practice, and may thus require a reasonable accommodation by employers. But can a hairstyle be a…
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Can Hairstyle Be A Race Related Characteristic Subject To Title VII?
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A couple more reader comments about our post about dreadlocks and mutable characteristics. Put another way: can forbidding dreadlocks in the workplace when it is not worn as a matter…
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Is Hairstyle Race-Related?
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Our post about dreadlocks and mutable characteristics drew further comments worth publishing:
Tasha Robinson, an HR manager in the Atlanta area:
“This is an interesting case. I just…
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“Mutable” Racial Characteristics: Pseudofolliculitis Barbae?
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We received a number of comments about our post about the Alabama court which held that dreadlocks was not an “immutable characteristic” and so was not a racial characteristic…
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Dreadlocks: Alabama Court Rules It Is A “Mutable Characteristic” And Not A Racial One
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Last September the EEOC sued an Alabama catastrophic insurance claims company under Title VII for allegedly refusing to hire a black woman who wore dreadlocks in contravention of the company’s…
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Dress Codes, Dreadlocks And Dagga
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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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Dress, Tattoos and Grooming Policies — When Do They Violate Title VII
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Its been almost a year since my partner Christina Stoneburner wrote about whether workplace prohibitions relating to dress, tattoos or grooming habits violate Title VII. See blog of 7/29/11. Title…
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