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.)
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Dreadlocks are confined to NYC? I live in Alabama now and am still seeing them.
Would you like an order of fries with your hair-burger?
I see them at the Metropolitan Opera (in the front Orchestra section where the seats are not graduated) and at the New York Philharmonic.
Sorry, I’ve never, ever seen that.
Last on in NYC turn out the lights!
Nothing like having a techni colored, pierced, tattooed young lady as a receptionist at your high end law firm, fake phoney fraud media outlets or corporate office. Since Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Starbucks, abc, nbc cnn msnbc are all in the can for socialism and the progressive liberal agenda lets try there first
There was even an exchange on Norman Lebrecht’s website Slippedisc a while ago about an incident involving some people who were in $300+ Orchestra seats at the Met, who had the misfortune to be seated behind a lady with a big Afro.
Surprised you haven’t seen any Afro’s.
Hefty makes a 32 gallon size.
What usually happens is either (1) the complainer is reseated, or (2) the complaint is refused.
LOL
Some would need a 55 gal. contractor’s bag.
BREAKING NEWS!
Big Hair Blondes now protected from "Dumb Blonde Jokes" harassment and ridicule by snooty elites in Noo Yawk City!
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/e8/89/ce/e889ceca3286409ed5185496cb5413f7--club-hairstyles-clubbing-hairstyles.jpg?b=t https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1f/cb/09/1fcb09066417438b7e77c03a37d364d2--big-blonde-hair-big-hair.jpg?b=t
Does this mean I can get someone thrown in jail for calling me “chrome dome”?
Wookiees everywhere rejoice!
So I can press charges when my co-workers give me grief about being bald?
It was said “When she dyed her hair she made a double batch, so her S-—h would match!”
“her down”, Is that a part of a woman’s anatomy? I’m still wondering that, when I hear “I wonder who is kissing her now’?
I’m 83 and still haven’t figure what these parts, of women, are.
;^}
As long as they are the ones making up the rules.
If the applicant is white, "We hired someone better qualified" will suffice. For a black applicant, no explanation of rejection is sufficient.
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