1. Reasonable Accommodation and Disparate Impact: Clean Shave Policy Discrimination in Today's Workplace.
- Author
-
Jiang YR
- Subjects
- Humans, Male, Black or African American legislation & jurisprudence, New York City, Organizational Policy, Policy, Working Conditions legislation & jurisprudence, Working Conditions organization & administration, Black People legislation & jurisprudence, Firefighters legislation & jurisprudence, Folliculitis ethnology, Folliculitis etiology, Folliculitis prevention & control, Hair Removal adverse effects, Hair Removal methods, Social Discrimination ethnology, Social Discrimination legislation & jurisprudence, Workplace legislation & jurisprudence, Workplace organization & administration
- Abstract
This article examines Bey v. City of New York - a recent Second Circuit case where four Black firefights suffering from Pseudofolliculitis Barbae (a skin condition causing irritation when shaving which mostly affects Black men) challenged the New York City Fire Department's Clean Shave Policy - with an intersectional approach utilizing legal theories of racial, disability, and religious discrimination.
- Published
- 2023
- Full Text
- View/download PDF