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the muslim woman who was turned down for a stylist position by a london hairdresser, as won £4.000 in damages for her “hurt feelings” the woman was not employed as part of the job entailed showing urban hairstyles as part of the shops urban image. the muslim woman refused to do this as she would not remove her head scarf. so she was not offered the job.. the muslim woman said her feelings was hurt, and she was distressed at not being offered the job. the shop owner says she is angry and upset at the ruling.
just goes to show, dont even interview a muslim unless you can get insurance against them.
and im willing to bet no insurance company in the world woul underwrite that. :twisted:i’m not being funny or racist but all jobs have requirements and if u don’t tick all the boxes and someone else does then u hire the person with most ticked boxes, and as for hurt feelings jesus its a job application end of, this sort of thing annoys me all this sueing for every bloody thing, hurt feelings get over it, and i hope other employers watch out for her and dont even get to the interview stage, at this rate employers will be to scared not to employ all the minorities wether they are right for the job or not.
Can I just interject something here, what about equal opportunity employment which, unless I’m mistaken, applies to all people regardless. It was a rather petty reason for why she was refused the job after all. Also what good would ‘showing off urban hairstyles’ do, all that proves is the ability of the person who cuts your hair and would have no reflection upon the hairdressing ability of the person wearing it
So it would be better to lie and say ‘I’ll get back to you’? The woman that didn’t take her on will learn a huge lesson from this. Do not reveal the reason why you are not employed. The culture and decision has been set to quite simply lie.
If I (or you) went to an interview for say, Harrords, in jeans and the person said ‘we don’t take people in jeans’… would you sue them for that? Would you ask what the alternative was? Would you conform?
If you went for an actors/actresses role for say Romeo, or Oberon and said ‘sorry I only wear muslim clothes’ would you get the job? Everything has a place in life… there is nothing racist for turning that person down.
It’s utter bollocks, in my opinion, to defend this decision.
And see if you got the same decision in Iran or Libya or any of those countries. They’d tell you to get back to where you came from as quickly as you got there.
Sorry in my opinion, this is defending the indefensible.
it’s my sad lot in life to play devil’s advocate, someone has to after all. Anyway if the sole reason for refusing a person a job was the type of clothing they wear then it is a dark day for civilisation indeed, would you refuse someone a job because they sometimes wear a short-sleeved shirt, or occasionally had flip-flops on? what’s next, refusing someone a position because of their hair colour?
I doubt anyone with ginger hair would of got the job for Mr Palmers video Addicted to love :roll:
I know that Tony and Guy do like you to have one of their haircuts, it’s advertising, nobody is going to see her hair, why should she get the job if she isn’t going to do it, part of the job is to have a good hair style, you don’t have a hairdresser with messy hair, it’s not good for business, so why have someone that doesn’t even show their hair?
but the hairdressers don’t cut their own hair they get someone else to do it for them so it doesn’t actually show anything about the hairdresser with the haircut does it?
and id hardly appear with my ONE O level ( french) demanding a job as the next coach for the England manager jobbie !
hhmm… then again !
if its part of what the hair dressing owner wants then it is a prerequisite of the job then it is end of, theres thousands of jobs out there that require u wear uniform, u want the job u wear it like the country one rule for one because they are the minority (a bit like the non helmet wearing Sikhs and another rule for everyone else – too many employee rights not enough employers rights, if u cant do what they want you to do, dont apply or expect not to get it.
@Forget Me Not wrote:
but the hairdressers don’t cut their own hair they get someone else to do it for them so it doesn’t actually show anything about the hairdresser with the haircut does it?
Tony and Guy have certain haircuts they like their staff to have, it’s their new styles for that season.
Personally I wouldn’t have told her the reason she hadn’t got the job, stupid is as stupid does.. In this case, it’s their own fault.
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