Should a Business Not Hire or Even Fire Someone For Having Multiple Tattos and Piercings?

Tattoos and Piercings are becoming very popular with many young college age students getting them. Should tattoos and piercing stop you from getting a job? Is that discrimination?

Posted By Pacific-Writer on September 16, 2007

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Businesses should be able to hire or even fire someone if they don't rep...

Posted By Pacific-Writer on September 16, 2007

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Another thing to consider is hygiene. If someone has multiple holes in...

Posted By Rocky-Mt-High on September 16, 2007

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Everyone has the right to look however they want...BUT

Posted By themonk on September 17, 2007

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A business has the right to hire employees that well represent the company. If a company doesn't wan

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Another thing to consider is hygiene. If someone has multiple holes in their body that can become

-- Posted By Rocky-Mt-High on September 16, 2007

infected and they are preparing food it becomes a health risk. In this case I think the business should be able to not hire or fire someone. .

Anyone, tattoos, piercings, or not can have any sort of infection on them. How many people are preparing food with a cold, cold sores (which are nothing but good old herpes), AIDS, and any other assortment of infections? How many people are serving food who have hepatitis infections? I saw a guy delivering chinese food to work one night, and he was just as yellow as a crayola, including the whites of his eyes--which means he had hepatitis. Another fellow who worked for a pizzeria had hepatitis. How many employees visit the bathroom and neglect to wash their hands afterwards? How many employees spit in people's food?

So don't hand me that song-and-dance about the holes.
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Everyone has the right to look however they want...BUT

-- Posted By themonk on September 17, 2007

Being an old hippie myself I fully defend the rights of anyone who wants to look and dress however they want on their own time...but as a person who has hired hundreds and fired several people...you have to meet an employers expectations.

An employer or prospective employer MUST have the right to select people that reflect the standards of their business. If your employees are going to meet the public they have to meet acceptable standards...be they right or wrong.

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Some companies

-- Posted By bathory313 on February 8, 2009

just naturally have a conservative image, and therefore are not likely to hire someone with tattoos/piercings.

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Businesses should be able to hire or even fire someone if they don't represent the business.

-- Posted By Pacific-Writer on September 16, 2007

An employees appearance directly efforts the company. If I went out to eat and the cook had a nose ring the size of a tire and two holes in his ears that you could drive a truck through, I probably would think twice. about eating there. I business has to take that into consideration when hiring someone. If a person's appearance is going to turn away customers, than that business should be able to say " No, we can't hire you.".

It shouldn't matter if someone has tattoos or peircings. If they are able to do the job, they should

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