Handling Sensitive Dress Code Issues without Getting Sued

Attend this Webinar to understand how to implement/change a dress code policy or how to make process so as to spend less time on dress-code-related problems.

Why Should You Attend:

• Can you require an employee to hide her tattoos?
• Can you legally require an employee to take out their tongue ring during work hours?
• Does a dress code mandating facial hair and other grooming policies invite a race discrimination claim?
• Can an employee legitimately dispute a no-smoking policy?

Today, plaintiffs are using traditional discrimination concepts to push the envelope in making claims of lifestyle discrimination based upon sexual orientation, gender-identity, physical appearance, pornography, piercings, tattoos, smoking and other borderline privacy/personal issues.

A server at a restaurant was fired because of the tattoos on his wrists, and he was eventually rewarded with $150,000 in damages.

Employers must find a happy medium between requiring appropriate dress among your employees and respecting their legal rights. It is critical to establish a balance between conservative workers who favor more formal business attire and those who want the freedom to wear their lifestyle choices.
Attend this Webinar to understand how to implement/change a dress code policy or how to make process so as to spend less time on dress-code-related problems.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• How to Change Your Company Dress Code (or institute one) Without Causing a Revolt.
• Exactly What to Say to a Smelly Employee.
• How to Handle Provocative Clothing (and what word not to use).
• Where Dress Codes and Discrimination Claims Meet (and how to avoid them).
• How Far You Can Go in Prohibiting Offensive Slogans on Workers’ Clothes.
• How to Deal with Transgender Dress-Related Issues.
• Where the Legal Line is Drawn When You Have Separate Dress Codes for Men and Women.
• How to Tailor Your Dress Code to Fit Workers in Different Types of Jobs-- From the Warehouse to the Corner Office.
• Details You Should Include in Your Written Appearance Policies.
• How to Effectively Communicate Your Dress Code Expectations to Workers.
• Dealing with Employees Who Consistently Push the Dress Code Envelope.

Who Will Benefit:

HR professionals, particularly those who are either in the process of implementing/changing a dress code policy or who is spending too much time on dress-code-related problems.

• Human Resource Professionals
• Employee Relations Professionals
• HR Administrators