Can you require employees to cut their hair in accordance with a company “look book”? Where do you draw the line on facial tattoos? Workplace dress code breaches can be fraught with the potential for discrimination.
Workplace Law managing director Athena Koelmeyer gave HC Online the low-down on the legality of enforcing dress codes.
1.At what point can a dress code issue be elevated to a reason for dismissal?
Employers are entitled to set uniform standards and require employees to comply. Employers can introduce uniforms for a variety of reasons, work health and safety reasons, hygiene reasons and style or branding reasons. All of these are good reasons for an employer to be allowed to reasonably and lawfully direct employees in relation to what they can wear and how to wear it.
