Black man with dreadlocks sues his employer for discrimination after he was told to 'cut his hair so it can't touch his ears, eyes or shoulders

Daily Mail ^

[butlerweave]

Dreadlocks always look disgusting

[Who is John Galt?]

..."I wasn't prepared to be told I would need to cut my hair in order to comply with Encore standards,' he said.

Encore is now claiming it was a 'miscommunication' and 'maintaining a diverse and inclusive workspace' is a part of its 'core values.

Maybe Mr. Look-At-Me! would prefer to wear a hair net at work...

[Mean Daddy]

Bigger the gauge, the lower the wage.

[LouAvul]

unless the company is in the insanity business or the circus business.

You just described our local Apple store. And Best Buy. And Starbucks.

They have an informal competition to see who can look the most bizarre, then when you look at them, it's like "...WHAT'RE YOU LOOKIN' AT....!!!!

[jonrick46]

Is this the Black man's brother?

[Allegra]

… but women seem to have competitions to find outfits that show as much skin as possible.

Not all women. Not at all.

[Ouderkirk]

Everywhere I have worked there was always a delineation between management, and the help. Management is clean shaven, or clipped close, short hair, shirt with a collar, and slacks (not jeans) shoes (not sneakers, flips, or Crocs).

[skr]

Not a fan of dreadlocks, but his are short and not particularly overwhelming as some I’ve seen.

[Hodar]

Nobody is forcing him to do anything.

A work contract is being suggested; and that work contract says the terms of the contract include grooming standards.

He has a choice, he can accept the work contract, with the terms, pay, benefits and duties described, and join that company’s workforce.

Or he can reject that contract, and look elsewhere.

When I hire, I look for a person who fits my TEAM, not a person who demands the TEAM adapt to him. I am part of that TEAM, and WWG1WGA.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When working in the steel fabrication industry, aircraft and power plants, long hair and facial hair was forbidden. So were rings and loose sleeves.

Too much chance of getting these items caught in rotating equipment.

One of my favorite photos at that time was a severed finger and ring, a torn ligament. He caught it on something and ripped the finger off his hand.
Facial hair caused you face mask not to seal in dangerous atmospheres.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

So agree..it looks unsanitary

[frank ballenger]

I know I haven’t really kept up with criminal fashions but don’t those bullet resistant garments look like a woman’s dress from maybe the 1950s? Jumper? Pinafore? I don’t know.
Or an apron but with shoulder pads?

Don’t know if Bubba and the other guys at his new prison address will think he’s kind of cute in his.

[Angelino97]

The business is private and can impose a dress code.

I doubt that's true anywhere in the U.S., but especially not in Democratic states.

I'm sure businesses cannot require women to wear skirts. Sexism.

I'm sure businesses cannot forbid men to wear skirts. Transphobia.

I'm sure businesses cannot forbid blacks from wearing "traditional African" hairstyles. Racism.

There is no lawsuit here.

California? Post-BLM? I'm certain there is. There might even already be a settlement on the way.

[frank ballenger]

When the movie “10” was number one, Saturday Night Live had a woman comment that “I visited Africa and all the women over there were disappointedly copying Bo Derek’s dread hairstyle.”

[SkyDancer]

Can’t claim cultural appropriation. Anything from the west is culturally appropriated by a certain group.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”We have a dress code at work that says no facial hair. “

We had the same.
Among other things, we had to certify with a Scott air pack and it has to seal on the face.

A large research lab where they sometimes play with extra fun stuff.

[NWFree]

I see them now with a flowerpot on their heads 🤪

I’m embarrassed for them

[Vision]

Yes. And they can have bugs in them.

[frank ballenger]

I distinctly recall a cheapy 1970s martial arts grindhouse movie in which the subtitles said the men had to have their “queue” (pigtail but shaved on sides) so authorities could grab them and pull them. But I have never found a reference.

Good old Chinese have these historical notes, though:

They then forced Han Chinese to adopt the queue as a sign of submission. A year later, after the Qing armies reached South China, on 21 July, 1645, the regent Dorgon issued an edict ordering all Han men to shave their foreheads and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those worn by the Manchus.

The policy of the Qing dynasty’s queue was “lose your hair, keep your head; or lose your head, keep your hair”. ... So a Chinese man without a queue was the same as a dead man. In 1873, California, the Pigtail Ordinance was enforced; this meant that all prisoners had to have their hair cut within an inch of their scalp.

[frank ballenger]

Oh, now I get it./S