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Legal guidance... Does that mean it's a suggestion or a binding law?
In effect, the guidance enables people to seek fines and other remedies if they’ve been harassed or punished in workplaces, schools or public spaces because of their hair texture or style. Hair nets, ties and the like can still be required for health and safety reasons.
The protections apply to everyone but were prompted largely by what the commission calls “racist stereotypes that black hairstyles are unprofessional.”
The guidance specifically warns employers they could face legal trouble for banning styles associated with black people, such as Afros, dreadlocks or cornrows, or for instructing black workers to straighten their hair.
Around the country, some schools have drawn attention for banning dreadlocks, do-rags, Afros and other ways of wearing hair.
Can't wait to see what happens when a white guy has a confederate flag cut in his hair. It might not happen in New York though... Will he be afforded the same protection?
Liberals understand that in this country, people have a right to do as they please. What they've never learned however, is that on the flip side of that is that we are not free from the consequences of our actions. If one wants to wear her hair purple or tattoo something on her forehead, she is free to do so, but she isn't from the result of that action.
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So if an employer won't hire a person because their ethnic hairstyle doesn't comply with their company image then they can now be sued, I guess the same applies if an employer addresses an inappropriate hair style on an existing employee.
I would love to go some third world country where people are starving and asking them what they think of this. I would love to ask some veteran who died in WWII what he thinks of this. I would love to ask some person who has been sold into sex slavery what they think of this. Are we really this stupid?
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I would love to go some third world country where people are starving and asking them what they think of this. I would love to ask some veteran who died in WWII what he thinks of this. I would love to ask some person who has been sold into sex slavery what they think of this. Are we really this stupid?
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