Okay - you and I have been over this point time and again. If you believe that employers should have plenty of latitude in their dress code, why do you believe the RCMP should be any different? You know what I am referring to.
The reason is simple, VanIsle. With RCMP, religious issues were involved (I assume you are referring to Sikhs wearing a turban). An employer has (and should have) a great deal of latitude, but he is not allowed to practice religious discrimination.
They were supposedly at issue (religious issues). That same member that caused all the fuss was apparently rarely found in anything but the traditional head gear.
In this case, if the waitress had proved that wearing make up was against her religion, that she had never worn make up in her life, and that wearing make up would go against her religion, she may have been able to win her case.
Maybe she should have won it over saying wearing it made her feel bad and therefore caused her stress. Others would have gotten away with it. I can understand an employer telling someone they need to play down their makeup but firing them for not wearing any? We are told no black cotton pants as they may fade and no Lulu Lemon or whoever it is but everyone still wears all of it and no one gets fired over it.
I also wonder why you would believe that make-up represents beauty.
If a waitress wears make up, she looks pretty, (your words)
Now, where did I say that, VanIsle? Right above this unless you are going to dance around exact words.
Make-up can change a plain person into a beautiful appearing person or it can change them into something butt ugly. If a woman does not know how to put make-up on, it can spell disaster and I'm sure we've all seen many of those disasters.
Sure it can, you are right. The point is not what I think, but what the employer thinks. If an employer thinks that wearing make up makes a woman more beautiful and so he wants his waitresses to wear make up, that is his prerogative.
If somebody doesn’t know how to put on make up, it is up to the employer to provide her with beauty classes to learn how to put up make up properly, as part of on the job training.
So the question here is not whether a woman should wear make up. The question is whether employer can mandate it as part of the job. In this case courts obviously think that he can. And seeing that employers are given a great deal of latitude, it doesn’t seem all that surprising.
Employers can set up all kinds of regulations. E.g. if an employer feels that wearing high heels can interfere with the job, he may forbid his employees from wearing high heels. It is best left to an employer as to how to run his business profitably and efficiently.
