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California Mayor Wants to Forbid Neckties at Work
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Posted on 07/12/2018 2:54:58 PM PDT by qwerty1234

THE MAYOR OF THE California town of Lancaster wants to forbid all city employers from requiring workers to wear neckties on the job.

Mayor R. Rex Parris asked the city attorney at a council meeting this week, according to The Los Angeles Times, if enacting a policy restricting employers from enforcing a tie-wearing dress code was possible.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; liberallogic
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Doesn't just want to make it optional - he wants to BAN them...jesus they sure have some nut jobs in california
1 posted on 07/12/2018 2:54:58 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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Muslim?


2 posted on 07/12/2018 2:55:44 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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Muzzies don’t wear neckties - so there ....


3 posted on 07/12/2018 2:55:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: qwerty1234

Not the government’s job to ban them.

Having said that, I really hated wearing one.


4 posted on 07/12/2018 2:56:28 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: OpusatFR

Nope


5 posted on 07/12/2018 2:56:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Sounds good to me! I hate having anything tied around my neck. I don’t even wear badge holders around my neck. I clip them to a belt loop.

It’s a stupid tradition that needs to go away.

Anyone who thinks ties are formal attire needs to know that the current tie and suit is by historic definition a “Leisure suit”, a “casual suit”. There is nothing formal about it.


6 posted on 07/12/2018 2:56:55 PM PDT by CodeToad
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I can think of some instances where I would still expect men to wear ties at work. Including banking executives, funeral home employees, probably others.


7 posted on 07/12/2018 2:56:57 PM PDT by NEMDF
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It’s been long taken as “professional.”


8 posted on 07/12/2018 2:58:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: qwerty1234

My personal list of “no-go zones” grows practically every week. This too is straight-up totalitarianism.


9 posted on 07/12/2018 2:59:18 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: CodeToad

“It’s a stupid tradition that needs to go away.”

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By a government ban?

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10 posted on 07/12/2018 2:59:34 PM PDT by Mears
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Everything that isn’t required is forbidden.


11 posted on 07/12/2018 2:59:50 PM PDT by null and void (Freedom is in our blood, we don't pass it down genetically, but through the blood we spill.)
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I am OK with not requiring them - but banning them, really? Mayor has nothing better to do?


12 posted on 07/12/2018 3:00:44 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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Marxist control freaks whose last thought is freedom


13 posted on 07/12/2018 3:00:53 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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I could see excusing normal information technology employees. I did work a while at one place that called for the ties most of the time. It was a distracting, self-consciousness heightening nuisance.


14 posted on 07/12/2018 3:01:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Mears

Some kind of non binding resolution recommending it is as far as it could be seemly taken.


15 posted on 07/12/2018 3:02:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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Lancaster? That place needs to try banning meth labs first.


16 posted on 07/12/2018 3:02:24 PM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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When did it become legal to enforce personal whims by law. Ban neckties and I buy a gun and a necktie, put on the necktie, load the gun, ho outside...


17 posted on 07/12/2018 3:02:35 PM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: CodeToad

I agree that ties are a stupid, antiquated, counterproductive practice.

Employers should not be able to compel the wearing of them.

Free the top shirt button.


18 posted on 07/12/2018 3:02:49 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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“I spend a lot of hours every week on an elliptical or a bike just to increase blood flow to my brain,” Parris told the Times, “and it turns out every morning when I put on a tie I’m diminishing it.”

It ain’t working.


19 posted on 07/12/2018 3:03:39 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: TalBlack

It shouldn’t be — but I could see a nonbinding resolution “We are a jeans campus town” or something of the sort.


20 posted on 07/12/2018 3:05:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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