Appeals Court: Employees Don’t Have a Right to Wear Dreadlocks

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Federal law bans employment discrimination on the basis of race. And courts have interpreted that to mean discrimination based on skin color and other “immutable traits.”

The key phrase in this ruling. Immutable traits. Hair is not an immutable characteristic.

Ideally, dreads wouldn't be the only hairstyle targeted. If someone wore a mullet or a Mohawk to work, you could make the same argument.

I'm just as skeptical of the reasoning that dreads "get messy" and such things are definitely couched in ignorance but extend this idea further that an employer can't request a hairstyle be changed which is something that you don't have to have. Someone who wears a Mohawk to the office can claim the same bias against a hairstyle they chose to have.

Emotionally, I understand the disagreement but based on how they are interpreting law, it sounds reasonable to me.
 

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Some of the c00ns who agree with this bullshyt are the same ones who criticize black women for relaxing their hair to conform to cac standards.
I think the problem is that if the court ruled in their favor and mutable characteristics are considered something you can discriminate against then you're opening up a big can of worms and it seems like this court didn't want to set the precedent.

Let's take the logic to the extreme, if they ruled in their favor, you could argue not only hairstyles apply. If a gay man decides to dress in a "flaming" way to the office, according to mutable characteristics being something that can be a form of discrimination by law, an employer couldn't tell them it's inappropriate. Obviously there is more debate about dreads than coming to work in hot pants as far as which one is more appropriate, but if you were to do a strict interpretation of the law then they are both the same.
 

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Just gonna go out on a limb and say this:


The New York Yankees made all them Boston Cacs cut their hair and shave their beard. Policy.


It's nothing new
 
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