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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Can An Employer Prohibit Body Piercing? Depends
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Tattoos, body piercings, dreadlocks – can an employer prohibit such bodily adornments? Can an employer require a “look policy?”
Depends.
We just read about a woman in Edmonton, Canada who…
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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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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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“Lookism” And Beauty Bias In The Workplace
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The Press from New Zealand (Press.com.nz) is publishing a series of articles on employment discrimination, and its leadoff article is about what we have called “lookism,” appearance bias or beauty…
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When Will Employers Learn The Law Regarding Religious Dress?
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Cases involving the same or similar fact situations keep coming, leading one to believe that employers have no clue as to the law, and/or that they have no HR directors…
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Dress And Grooming Codes and Gender Discrimination
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We recently wrote that Title VII does not prohibit dress or grooming rules per se, but that such rules may run afoul of Title VII if they have a disparate…
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Employers Must Accommodate Religious Headwear in NY and CA – Two Developments
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There have been a couple of major legal matters just reported that relate to dress, tattoos or grooming habits in the workplace and the impact of Title VII. On May …
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