fuckwits

[threeplusfire]

What the fucking fuck? It's perfectly legal to require women to wear makeup to work and you can fire them if they don't live up to your standards.

Can't believe it can you? Read the ruling.

It's most certainly not the same as forbidding men to wear makeup, and it's a big fat pile of steaming bullshit. For shame, justices of the 9th Circuit court of appeals. Shame on you.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

I read about this a while ago. I agree that it's a pile of guano. I did look into it to see the mechanics of the evil, and what I found was :

They are thinly trying to classify their bartenders / cocktail waiter/esses as ' performers ' in order to get them to have a particualr look. while I agree that the makeup does not apply equally for men, I can see the language whereby if a male bartender gained 15 lbs he could be fired or forced to join a gym to maintin the ' approved look ' at a similar cost ( hundreds of dollars a month ) to the makeup. Suck.

The one thing I don't understand is that , the job requirements changed while she was employed. There should be a grandfather clause, or some reasonable effort to ease into the new requirements. Maybe an allowance for makeup like some cpompanies offer an allowance for clothing. ( Yes, I know this still runs afoul of the requirement being bad , but it's less draconian )

Vegas can be evil.