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Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

A hairdresser for is being sued for religious discrimination after rejecting a job application from a devout Muslim because she insisted on wearing her headscarf, which she said was essential to her beliefs. Hairdresser Sarah Desrosiers is being sued for more than £15,000 by Bushra Noah for injury to her fee...

News | 9 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

How different would the comments here be if a non-Muslim hairdresser had been refused a job at a salon owned by a Muslim for NOT wearing a headscarf?

Comment | 15 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I also agree with Peter Daws. In that type of business you need to show what you have great taste and style, to encourage customers to receive advice from their hairdressers...To this type of job in particular, appareance is paramount to succeed and it would be unfair to punish her for that. If this type of claims is successful, imagine how many more claims like this will be made and how many people's lives will be ruined...

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I have been around longer than you Mike Densham, and I have had my hair cut by a person who had head covering. As an 11 year old I remember well the man who stood over 6 feet tall and cut my hair with a cutthrought razor, no scisors or comb. He was a Sikh and with his height, turban, beard and fla

Comment | 17 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

it seems to be that so many o us have to be tolerant As a Christian I believe that I should not work on Sundays or certain religous festivals such as Good Friday and Christmas Day One employer I was working for (part time) during my studies said I had to work on Christmas Day as they were going to open and it worked out that Christmas was my rota'd day on. Now when I started there I made my religous beliefs clear. Yet when I challenged this to my then employer I was informed that I could work as rota'd ...

Comment | 17 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

Claire, thank you for clarifying the point. I don't disagree that all cultures should be as inclusive as possible in relating and responding to people from outside of that cultural group. That should be a given. But, let's remind ourselves of the need to be careful here. Tolerating one another is only possible if wha...

Comment | 16 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

We should be ashamed. Muslims seem to have become fair game in our society. Let's be honest - there are several other marginal groups who noone would dare challenge in this manner - and rightly so.

Comment | 15 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

This is a loony situation. Of course the Salon owner is right. I wouldnt employ anyone in an upmarket clothes shop if they turned up wearing jeans! Business is about instilling a desire for a product in the eye of the consumer. If that image is fundamentally compromised by what is worn (if it is important to that type of business) then the employer has to have the right to make such descisions. Office work, or similar circumstances may well be different.

Comment | 15 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I’ve never commented on one of these discussion boards before but feel compelled to do so on this occasion. I wonder if Martin Brewer can recall any occasion in his life that his hair was cut at a hairdressers by someone with their hair covered. I certainly can’t! (I’m 42 years old, not saying that I remember every haircut I’ve ever had, but of the ones I do remember, I don’t ever recall a hairdresser wearing headgear). On Martin Brewer’s other points: 1. ‘Politically correct’, right...

Comment | 15 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

If Noah wants to be a Muslim hairdresser, then why doesn't work in a Muslim salon where no-one cares what her hair looks like?

Comment | 15 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

...qualified is entitled to ask why and it seems to me that's all Noah is doing. By arguing that 'it's so obviously reasonable' not only does one make the assumption that it is reasonable without that being tested (and no one can explain why it's so obviously reasonable-after all I don't check out my hairdresser's hair-I don't even know where she gets it done), one also buys into a whole host of assumptions. Did for example, anyone consider that the business argument, that a headscarf wearing hairdresser would be bad for business, consider that Muslim women who despite wearing the headscarf might like to ...

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

Unfortunately Sarah sounds like she's on a bit of a sticky wicket here. Noah could have been a good addition to her company but her reluctance to remove her head scarf could influence Sarah's business. I don't think playing the race card is a great move though and surely after 25 failed interviews you wo...

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

...ed at the other. I find myself closer to the outraged on this, I wonder why. Is it that I am racist? Honestly not. Am I anti religious expression? No I have a faith and respect others. Perhaps it is because I feel that the employer really should be able to ask for hair to be on show in a hairdressers? Ah yes, that would be it. Martin Brewer asks “are we really saying no one should have the right of challenge?” I wonder is this a serious question? Yes all should have a right to challenge where there is not a reasonable (dreadful word in legal situations…) argument. Whether the employ...

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I totally agree with Peter (Hoare). The image for any hairdressing establishment to maintain is surely "class & style" and that can be achieved in a number of different ways - ways which will not be agreeable to all potential customers but that will be their choice. I am afraid that I can sense prejudices coming through some of the comments mad...

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

So many comments here all referring to "commomn sense". Here is the only real problem. Common sense has no place in a court of law. And this is even more prominent in tribunals. I am more than happy to say that the muslim lady in question is probably a very good hairdresser. But any hairdressers that anyone works at has a more stict "appearance policy" than many offices dress codes. Would anyone go to get their hair cut by someone who had greasy dirty hair OR by someone who wore a baseball cap constantly?

Comment | 14 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I fail to see the relevance of a hairdresser's own hair (or covering up thereof) to their quality and ability to cut hair. To the first two posters above, are you really saying that you'd refuse to have your hair cut by someone who was bald? Do you believe that the hairdresser cuts their own hair?

Comment | 12 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

...ecome an employee. It may be that in particular employments this policy could be justified but each case has to be tested otherwise we will not know if the policy was being imposed specifically to exclude certain types of individual. I wonder if the same level of argument would be heard if this hairdresser had insisted on all her hairdressers having a beard thus excluding all (or most!) women. I know some will say this is an absurd example but it is simply an example of an appearance standard that has a disproportionate effect on one sector of our society and may be impossible to justify. Sarah's s...

Comment | 12 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

In my opinion this sort of thing has gone too far already. As an employer Sarah has the right to specify a dress code and standard of appearance for the people she employs. If muslim women want to wear a headscarf, fine, they should be allowed to, but they must understand that if the headscarf does not fit with the requirements of a potential employer, then they should be prepared to either remove it at work or they don't get the job. Politic...

Comment | 12 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

I hope the tribunal throw this case straight out. It is essential to see the full appearance of the staff member in a salon. As the presentation of hair, make up and clothes of the stylist helps me to decide if it is a place that I would like to visit. And if Miss Noah has attended 25 other intervie

Comment | 10 Nov 2007
Hairdresser sued for rejecting Muslim job applicant

why even become a hairdresser if you wont show your hair because of religion, a hairdresser is someone you look to for inspiration and style advice, i wouldn't go to somebody who hides her own hair.

Comment | 10 Nov 2007