Personal appearance and behaviour

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer have a policy that requires male employees to keep their hair short?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer have a policy that prohibits male employees from wearing earrings?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer require an employee to change their hairstyle if the employer considers that it is too unconventional?

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Timekeeping policy

  A model policy to remind employees of their duties in relation to timekeeping.

• Date:

  12 January 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Religion or belief discrimination: Christian employee not permitted to wear cross over uniform did not suffer indirect discrimination

  In Eweida v British Airways plc EAT/0123/08, the EAT held that a uniform policy that prohibited visible items of jewellery, unless worn in pursuance of a mandatory scriptural requirement, did not indirectly discriminate against a Christian employee who wished to display a cross over her uniform.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employers require all employees to wear a uniform?

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Second job policy

  A model policy to set out guidelines on when employees can take a second job.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What can employers do to avoid problems arising from work-related social events?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Should employers have written rules on work-related social events?

• Date:

  29 October 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Harris v NKL Automotive Ltd and Matrix Consultancy UK Ltd

  In Harris v NKL Automotive Ltd and Matrix Consultancy UK Ltd EAT 0134/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal's finding that a requirement to have tidy hair did not indirectly discriminate against a Rastafarian who wore his hair in dreadlocks.