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Wednesday, January 19th 2005

2:42 PM

Response to Article on Employment Regulations

Please read the article in the below link and then continue with this response, but you will understand the response without the article:

http://www.californianonline.com/news/stories/20050120/localbusiness/1893242.html

The below letter was emailed to the writer Susan Blitch at sblitch@hurleylaw.com.

I read your article on the Harrah's case. What is being continually missed here is the Human Rights violations continually being committed. You are writing about this as if it has no human implications.

I am an advocate for men's fashion freedom and workplace rules that force men to have short hair, trimmed nails and no makeup are a violation of every man's rights. Men had long hair until the twentieth century. Makeup in the twentieth century has been used primarily by women, but every man appearing on television and in movies uses makeup.

Each person's appearance should be their own domain with minor restrictions. Rules against apparel with violent or fowl images or words should not be in the workplace. An employer should have the right to request that employees dress up, but should not dictate exactly what clothing employees must wear. Any other restriction should be based upon safety of the employees.

While my appearance standards may sound very loose, they are morally, ethically and legally valid. Forcing employees to dress a certain way or use or not use makeup is wrong. In fact, there are many women that do not use makeup and do not need makeup. Is it acceptable for a company to say that they must learn how to use makeup? Will the company then pay for any dermatological damage down to that woman's skin by wearing makeup unnecessarily?

Corporations are out of control. This has been shown by the financial misdeeds and now by the employee standards. You should consider that in your writing and your legal practice.

If corporations want anyone in makeup so bad, then the entire staff should wear clown makeup. Enforcing ridiculous and unnecessary employment regulations in order to support a company's image is unacceptable.

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