Posted on 03/15/2010 9:57:08 AM PDT by Smogger
DETROIT — Change is in the air for Detroit city workers.
City employees will be urged not to wear perfume, cologne or aftershave as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.
Officials plan to place warning placards in three city buildings. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."
The employee handbook and Americans with Disabilities Act training also will bear warnings.
The Detroit News reports the move stems from a $100,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 by a city employee who said a colleague's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job.
Information from: The Detroit News
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1. I have been victimized by other peoples perfume/cologne because they, apparently, use it as a substitute for bathing, and because I have allergic rhinitis (a sensitive nose). I would, however, never dream of suing. I think emberassing them would probably work better.
2. "colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ..." Really? Deoderant and lotion? Looks like Detroit is about to get a whole lot stinkier!
Will simple “Eau de Soap” be allowed, or...even perhaps required?
Will simple “Eau de Soap” be allowed, or...even perhaps required?
I have rhinitis and asthma and I totally support this legislation.
They’ve been senseless for a long time.
“Detroit is about to get a whole lot stinkier...”
If that were possible.
There is nothing worse than the smell of a dirty body mixed with cheap perfume!
Gonna be allot of stinkin’ going on in Detroit.
Reminds me of the old saying I’d like to use on some folks in the elevator, “That’s a nice perfume scent you are wearing, but must you marinate in it?”
I remember a hospital aide who used to buy perfume “by the gallon” and dump it into her washing machine and wash her clothes in it.
She was warned several times but wouldn’t stop. As a private ununionized hospital she was let go. But you know in a government job you can’t be fired for such a thing.
It’s hard to make people draw the correlation but in the end it’s the overreaching government hand and unions that cause so much of this idiocy. In a rational world the offending employee would have been corrected and it would have never reached this stage.
That’s debatable. :-)
So the office must smell like the toilets now for PC? Take that to your your aromatherapist.
Bright colored clothing (reds and blues and orange)prevent me from doing my job because of possible seizures. I will have to read up on this lawsuit s-more.../s
amazing.. So 1 persons nose, changes the ability of people to wear deoderent in that city? amazing.. coming your way, soon.
Yea!They would prefer the stench of B.O.
Yeah there is. SOmeone who just smoked a cigarette and tries to mask the smell with cologne. Thinking it will hide it.
B.O. is much better......
I am highly allergic to you - there ought to be a law.....
The stench Detroit should be working to eliminate comes from liberals.
And we can easily see the results.
Some democracy ay? One disgruntled hack taxpayer sucking worker gets to sue the city plus dictates what the rest of the population should do! Tyranny by the minority---I say let all the city people defy the decree and tank up on perfume and cologne and scroogie them! Let the stink police come and lock them all up!
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