Thank the Lord!
Posted on 02/18/2019 5:53:30 AM PST by Sub-Driver
New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair
New guidelines out this week give legal recourse to individuals who have been harassed, punished or fired because of the style of their hair.
By Stacey Stowe
Feb. 18, 2019
Under new guidelines to be released this week by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the targeting of people based on their hair or hairstyle, at work, school or in public spaces, will now be considered racial discrimination.
The change in law applies to anyone in New York City but is aimed at remedying the disparate treatment of black people; the guidelines specifically mention the right of New Yorkers to maintain their “natural hair, treated or untreated hairstyles such as locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, fades, Afros, and/or the right to keep hair in an uncut or untrimmed state.”
In practice, the guidelines give legal recourse to individuals who have been harassed, threatened, punished, demoted or fired because of the texture or style of their hair. The city commission can levy penalties up to $250,000 on defendants that are found in violation of the guidelines and there is no cap on damages. The commission can also force internal policy changes and rehirings at offending institutions.
The move was prompted in part by investigations after complaints from workers at two Bronx businesses — a medical facility in Morris Park and a nonprofit in Morrisania — as well as workers at an Upper East Side hair salon and a restaurant in the Howard Beach section of Queens. (The new guidelines do not interfere with health and safety reasons for wearing hair up or in a net, as long as the rules apply to everyone.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Amazon employees will not be impacted.
O say, can you see?
My eyes.
If you can, then my hair’s too short.
I assume Orange hair is not impacted.
No change in law, just more regulation...……………………..
Do they even have hair nets big enough for dreds?
Eleanor Holmes is a racist with Lice Cut Hair.
If you hire a woman with lice cut hair you are asking for serious trouble
Snort. With the skyrocketing minimum wage, I think hair will be the least of an employee’s worries.
The owner of a business should be free, out of consideration for his or her customers, from having to hire freaks with outrageous hairstyles, ungodly body piercings or even overly tattooed.
If an individual wants to succeed in most any work, that individual should be compelled to consider the potential for profit versus intentional repulsiveness.
Thank the Lord!
Finally, the fast food workers with filthy flea-infested dreadlocks will be safe!
Why would a city ban discrimination based on a Broadway musical...?
I interview and hire lots and lots of people as part of my job. Never once have I used appearance as a reason for passing on a candidate...there’s always another reason that is perfectly legal...even in NYC.
Likewise, I’ve fired quite a few people. Never once was appearance a factor. There’s always something else that can be cited.
“New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair”
Hair on the head?
Will this affect the NY Yankees?
Accompanying Video: "Politics" of Black hair Melissa Harris-Perry
Feel like letting my freak-flag fly...
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