Rights for the Pierced
The main qualifications an employer looks for in potential employees is integrit, honesty, the ability to interact with others, and language skills. Typically employers are looking for a person who can provide the best services related to the business in need. American companies claim to be equal opportunity employers, but how can they provide equal opportunities when there is still discrimination agenst a group of people? The group of people I am speaking about is the people who choose to adorn their body with visible piercings. The idea that the number of body piercings a person has will effect their job performance is as ridiculous as saying a persons hair color effects their intelligence. In the work force today most employers strictly forbid their employees to wear visible body piercings. A general overview of piercing is needed to ensure a common understanding from which to work. For the purpose of this discussion, body piercing will be defined as any object intentionally left in the body for wich there is no physiologicall or functional purpose. It must have had to be placed in body in an event wich took a concious decision. Earlobe piercing will not be discussed unless it is in the case where it has become exte
http:www.bmezine.com/culture/metlect.html. October 23, 1999 6. Eavier, Becky. Personal Interview. October 30, 1999 Is all of the bother with dress code policies just an act to protect the eyes of clients? From a business standpoint, they want as much exchange as possible to create a high revinue. If the way a person employed by a company looks offends customaers, those customers are not as likely to return to the business. Businesses work hard to provide their customers with a uniform look in employees. Uniforms are even provided in most businesses where customer service is nessisary. It is impossible to make every employee look like the next, but by produce employees as products of the company there is a certain safe ground created where any loss of business will not be due to the offensive looks of employees. Becky Eavier, the proprietor for Outback Steakhouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan has a strict two ear ring per ear policy in her resteraunte. "Outback as a company has a one ear ring per ear policy, but I just don't think that is realistic" she says. "I dont allow the girls to wear more than two ear rings per ear while they are waitressing here. There are just too many customers who would be bothered by all that jewelry." 3. Uhland, Vicky. 1998. Tattooing, Piercing Seldome in Company Dress Codes. There are some corporations that do not prohibit visible facial piercings on employees. Lexmark, a company in Boulder Colorado which employes more than three-hundred people in jobs ranging from assembly to engineering, has a "basual business" dress code. There is nothing in the dress code that disallows employees to be pierced. Joyce McKee from Lexmark's human resources department states "It's just not come up as being an issue." She says that as long as piercing is "not a safety issue and doesn't affect a persons performance, it won't come up" in dress code discussions.
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