Originally Posted by
Cyio
I mean, HR has to deal with ironing of uniforms, having the wrong uniform, haircuts etc and get by just fine. To say that allowing facial hair will suddenly cause a mass problem for them is silly.
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Never worked HR, have you? It’s only about 5% of the people that cause 90% of your problems. So why would they want to open up another avenue for them to cause trouble, absent a compelling business interest or legal issue forcing them?
United Parcel Service Inc. will pay $4.9 million to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit that claimed the company’s uniform and appearance guidelines are biased.
The settlement is the largest class religious discrimination settlement in the history of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to the agency’s former chief attorney.
“It’s a very important case to make sure that large employers take the steps necessary to accommodate all religious minorities,” David Lopez, the EEOC’s Obama-era general counsel, told Bloomberg Law. “It is a big case, and to the best of my recollection, that is the largest resolution.”
In its
August 2015 lawsuit, the commission
alleged that the package delivery giant refused to hire applicants who wore beards and long hair for religious reasons. UPS also segregated employees with religious-related beards and long hair into nonsupervisory jobs with no customer contact, denied them equal opportunities for promotion, and failed to provide them with faith-based work accommodations, the EEOC alleged.