Partner Jacki Thompson was quoted in the Law360 article "4 Ways Grooming, Dress Policies Can Be Legally Unkempt."
“Obviously, private-sector employers have a lot of latitude on what they can impose on appearance in the workplace. But what often tends to happen is the policies they draft are very vague and they don’t really give a lot of direction one way or the other. Then you combine that with lack of training of management of what the policy entails and how it’s meant to be enforced, and there tends to be either an inability for people to understand what the policy is actually saying, or it will be … not applied evenly to all employees," said Jacki.
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