'Black people should not be forced to wear their hair in unnatural styles to meet an employer’s biased standard of beauty and grooming.' From our editorial board, via latimesopinion:
— to extend its protections to traits historically associated with a person’s race, such as hair texture and “protective hairstyles.” It cites braids, locks and twists as specific examples.
Nothing in the bill would stop employers from requiring workers’ hair to be neat and clean. Nor would it bar employers from having rules about hair if safety or health reasons require them, such as in restaurant kitchens. But critics have argued that braids and locks are hairstyles that more naturally accommodate kinky hair and, as such, should be considered as much a part of a person’s racial identity as an Afro. At the very least, it seems ludicrous for an employer to force a black person whose hair is more easily braided or put in locks to use damaging chemicals and flat irons to achieve a hairstyle that matches the employer’s vision of what constitutes professionalism.
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