by Brenna Johnson | Feb 10, 2020 | discrimination, dress codes, employer restrictions, limits on employers, personnel policies and procedures, protected classes
It’s a new year, and employers know what that means: a number of new laws affecting the workplace took effect on January 1. Law week we discussed AB51, which is under injunction pending resolution of a lawsuit. Law protects ‘natural hair’ This week...
by Brenna Johnson | Jun 9, 2015 | discrimination, dress codes, employer responsibilities, job interviews, protected classes
Laws against religious discrimination got a boost last week when the Supreme Court ruled against Abercrombie and Fitch in a case involving a Muslim woman denied a sales job because she wore a headscarf. The case, brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
by Brenna Johnson | Apr 28, 2015 | dress codes
As an employer, you’re no doubt aware that job applicants with tattoos and body piercings have proliferated in recent years, particularly as millennials – those born in the 1980s – take their place in the workforce. A 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center reported...
