Dress Codes for the Workplace - Legally Compliant Policies and Guidelines 2012

Key Topics

• Your rights as an employer to establish a dress code as a condition of employment
• Reasons to have a Dress Code
• Defining business, business casual and casual
• What to include in your dress code?
• Morale and respect among coworkers
• Professionalism: customer contact positions
• Uniforms and logo wear
• Safety: office and manufacturing positions
• Perfume and cologne
• Piercings, tattoos and hair
• Cultural and religious considerations and other exceptions
• Hygiene
• When companies have been taken to court about "dress": discrimination cases related to sex or gender, religion, or race?
• Younger generation`s preference for informality
• Designing a policy which corresponds to your business
• When does dress make a positive or negative impact on performance?

Who should Attend

First line Supervisors and Management, Human Resource Professionals, Training and Learning Professionals, Recruiters and Employment Specialists, Consultants and Business Owners and Affirmative Action Officers.