What Not to Wear: How Employers Can Fashion and Enforce a Workplace Dress Code Policy

What Not to Wear Webinar Recording

Can you ban an employee tattoo even if it's part of a religious practice? Can you ban headwear if it’s part of someone’s personal expression? What about dress codes related to safety rules? Do you allow workers to wear T-shirts with offensive slogans or pictures? Employers today are facing these questions and more as they try on different dress codes to find the right fit.

Although no one has written a eulogy for the business suit just yet, the workplace is much more relaxed than it used to be when it comes to attire. Business casual isn't your parents' business casual anymore.

How employees dress makes a statement about their organization, but dress codes are loosening up as body expressions such as piercings and tattoos are becoming more commonplace. It's necessary to balance the need for employees to look professional while still being realistic about their need for self-expression, which can help with recruitment and retention -- and prevent lawsuits. 

Participate in this interactive webinar, and in just 90 minutes, you'll learn:

• The top five biggest legal landmines when it comes to addressing employee dress codes and how you can avoid them
• Your accommodation obligations for religious attire
• Where your employees’ rights end and your boundaries of professionalism begin when it comes to tattoos, piercings, and more
• If you can consider an applicant’s attractiveness in making hiring decisions
• What discrimination issues you should consider when devising dress codes
• Special obligations that may apply to transgenders
• And much more...

In just 90 minutes, you'll learn how to fashion and enforce a custom-fit dress code policy that works for you and your employees. Register now for this event risk free.

This webinar was recorded on Friday, June 1, 2012

What Not to Wear: How Employers Can Fashion and Enforce a Workplace Dress Code Policy

About Your Speaker:

Gary Marx of Marx and Lieberman PLLC has had a long career with more than three decades of experience in providing counsel to clients in a wide variety of areas ranging from ERISA and tax compliance to governmental ethics and labor law. He has advised hundreds of clients and litigated numerous cases. Many of his clients are high profile nonprofit organizations, and he has extensive experience in handling controversial matters. Mr. Marx cofounded Marx and Lieberman in 1998 and its predecessor firm, Marx and Krame, in 1986. Mr. Marx has an LL.M. in taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center and a J.D. from the Washington and Lee School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Law Review.