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Reasonable Accommodation and Disparate Impact: Clean Shave Policy Discrimination in Today's Workplace.
- Source :
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The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics [J Law Med Ethics] 2023; Vol. 51 (1), pp. 185-195. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 25. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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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.
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1748-720X
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37226761
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.55