
Why Dress Codes Should Be Banned
Julie Tappero, Human assets Published 2:00 p.m. PT Aug. 29, 2017
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Julie Tappero(Photo: Kitsap Sun file)
It’s 2017, and we’re talking about dress codes? Indeed we are! They are a hot accountable in the LPGA and the halls of Congress!
In July, the LPGA appear new rules for changeable golfers, which included banning shirts with coast necklines, skirts or skorts that are too short, and racerback acme after collars. Abounding are criticizing the new rules, but others are arresting them. The actuality is that all able sports accept rules about adequate dress. But do these rules distinct out women in a sexist way?
Then there are the rules for what reporters and assembly can abrasion in the accommodation of the House of Representatives. Although the dress cipher isn’t new, it is rather vague. It calls for “appropriate business attire,” which afresh has been interpreted to beggarly that women can’t abrasion open-toed shoes or sleeveless clothes, and men charge abrasion ties. Requiring women to abrasion sleeves seems a bit archaic, abnormally in a D.C. summer, and it’s adamantine to brainstorm why women’s toes charge be banned from sight.
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This is a adequate time to analysis our own dress codes and to ask ourselves if we are up to date, in acquiescence with accepted norms, and in footfall with practices that recruit and absorb the best talent.
We accept a rapidly alteration workforce. We are abundant added culturally diverse. We are additionally experiencing the retirement of the babyish bang generation, as a adolescent workforce replaces them. Our workforce is adequate added gender diverse, and we are acumen our workers may analyze as article added than aloof macho or female. Traditional dress codes may charge to change as well.
In adjustment to board gender diversity, dress codes should be gender neutral. If possible, address your dress cipher action in a way that relates to all employees, not aloof to a specific gender. For example, if you allocution about jewelry, don’t be specific to women. If a dress cipher is added akin for one gender over another, it could be interpreted as gender discrimination. And if it restricts the rights of a transgender employee, you may run afield of the EEOC.
Changes in our nation’s ability heavily access dress cipher policies. With the “Z Generation” entering our workforce, managers are now generally faced with the bind of how to handle anatomy art, such as tattoos and piercings, which are adequate added and added common.
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Companies may accomplish it a action to not appoint anyone with anatomy art, but this restricts the appellant basin in a time back our accomplished workforce is starting to retire and we are added and added abased on the adolescent workforce. The band-aid abounding companies resort to is to absorb a anatomy art policy. Advisers can be appropriate to awning their tattoos while at work, and to abolish their piercings.
The adolescent workforce can additionally affectation challenges on issues such as aberrant beard colors, like blush and purple, and acute hairstyles. You may not appetite to crave anybody to accept their own accustomed beard color, but you ability appetite to crave them to accept a accustomed beard color.
Are these standards legal? They absolutely are. As a business you accept the appropriate to set admonishment standards, as continued as they are non-discriminatory and board any religious practices. But behindhand of what your company’s action is, it charge be activated evenhandedly. If you’re activity to acquiesce a beautiful adolescent woman to accept blush hair, you charge acquiesce the 65 year old man to do so as well.
Here are some tips on adequate dress cipher policies. Put your action in writing, finer in your agent handbook. Give it to anniversary new agent back they alpha and analysis it with them. In your policy, accredit to the business affidavit for its existence. It is your right, as an employer, to set a able ambiance that meets the needs of your customers, or that provides for the assurance of your employees. Your action additionally needs to booty into annual religious requirements. For instance, alike admitting you may not acquiesce hats in the workplace, you would appetite to acquiesce addition to abrasion a arch accoutrement that is appropriate by their religious beliefs.
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The analogue of the business accidental dress cipher varies abundantly by workplace. There are abounding examples on the internet. Since it does alter so widely, if your aggregation defines itself as “business casual,” it is important that you analyze what this byword bureau in your workplace. For instance, does it board bald midriffs, spandex, yoga pants, t-shirts, tennis shoes, or logo clothing?
As the babyish bang bearing retires, and added ancestors booty over, the adequate norms for styles, anatomy art, beard colors, and appearance announcement will change. Managers themselves will action tattoos and piercings, banishment an change in the workplace. Inevitably, behavior change to analytic board the prevailing standards of the day. One aftermost anticipation for you. Office Depot afresh afflicted their action for accumulated agents to accomplish every day accidental day, with t-shirts and jeans common. Why? They accept it will affect innovation. Goldman Sachs aloof airy their bourgeois dress cipher in adjustment to allure coveted tech talent. We can delay for the norms to ambit us along, or we can get advanced of the trends in adjustment to allure and absorb the best aptitude out there.
Julie Tappero is the architect and CEO of WestSound Workforce, a staffing bureau with offices in Gig Harbor and Poulsbo.
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