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[REPOST] Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by floppy@rabbitea.rs to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://rabbitea.rs/post/280182

I think this is appropriate here!

‘I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair’

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[–] UnbeatenDeployGoofy@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

landed a front-of-house role in the hospitality industry without a face-to-face or video interview

Seems like the flawed interviewing process is to blame.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, so they could discriminate her based on her looks sooner?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Well, as a customer facing role, they have good reason for the requirement. She is representing this business. They have the right to represent themselves a cartain way.