Hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim woman in a headscarf
Last updated at 19:29pm on 8th November 2007
The owner of a hair salon is being sued for religious discrimination for refusing to hire a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf. Sarah Desrosiers, 32, says she turned down Bushra Noah as a junior stylist to maintain the image of her salon, which specialises in “urban, funky” cuts.
She told Miss Noah, 19, she needed her staff to display their hairstyles to the public.
Have you noticed just how the anti discrimintaion laws always seem to have some consequences for ordinary people who just want to make a go of their businesses Just like the owner of this Hairdresser in London? Reading the piece in the Daily Mail this seems to me to be another example of a Muslim activist trying to change society to suit their own religious and political agenda. Hairdressing is all about image and style and I think that Sarah Desrosiers is entirely within her rights to choose her employees on the basis that they are consistent with both the theme and the mood that she want’s to foster for her Salon.
One of the fundamental things that all Jobseekers must learn is that you must be prepared to dress in a manner that is appropriate to the position you are applying for. And what exactly does Sarah Desrosiers want from her staff?
“When a potential client walks past on the street, they look into a salon at the stylists to get an impression of what haircut they are going to get there.
“The image I have built my salon on is very urban, funky, punky. That is the look I am going for.
So you have to ask does the litigant in the first picture match the image that Sarah was looking for in a new stylist?
What is the bet that the next ridiculous case to be brought will be by a Muslim woman claiming that she is being discriminated against because she won’t be employed as a dancer as she will only preform in a Burqa, despite the fact that the employer is a strip club?
This sort of thing would be funny if it wasn’t for the fact that ordinary people like Sarah Desrosiers are facing ruin.
The fact of the matter is that were they to gain power here the leftists would want to have exactly the same sort of “anti discrimination” laws here as they have burdening the British public. Add that to the reintroduction of the stultifying “unfair dismissal” laws that Labor so love and we can expect a rather rapid decrease in the small business people of this country’s willingness to employ any new staff at all.
Cheers Comrades
Filed under: England, Ethical questions, Federal Election, God bothering, Men and Women, Multiculturalism, the Law | Tagged: Funky. Islam, Hajib
You position is fair enough if you agree to an employers right to reject someone who won’t remove their crucifix, or skull cap as well. In fact, anything not percieved fitting for the job.
MM That is a given OK
“This sort of thing would be funny if it wasn’t for the fact that ordinary people like Sarah Desrosiers are facing ruin.”
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What the heck is that based on? Unless you’re in agreement with Marx that the concentration and centralisation of capital are inevitable consequences of capitalist development, with the resultant financial squeeze on the petty-bourgeois (e.g. hair salon owners) ?
From the Daily mail report SM looks like facing ruin to me
Well, that’ll learn me to read the whole article in the future, won’t it!? Its obviously a Friday…
But really, I somehow doubt British small business is hitting the rocks due to a tidal wave of discrimination lawsuits. I reckons its more to do with the reason I touched on above…
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