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Oct. 19, 2016
Can you ban a hairstyle from the office?
Although the court was right to reject the claim that a dreadlock-banning dress code must be discriminatory, the prevalence of legal challenges to dress codes suggests a need for employers to rethink their approach. By Richard Thompson Ford
Richard Thompson Ford
Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Phone: (415) 723-2796
Harvard Univ Law School
Richard Thompson Ford (@our_ford) is a professor of law at Stanford Law School
Last month, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employer that refused to hire a black woman because of her dreadlocks did not discriminate on the basis of race. EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Systems is the latest in a long line of cases involving challenges to employer dress codes. The court was right to reject the claim that a dress code that bans dreadlocks - along with other unconventional hair...
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