Is the workplace rule that security guards should be clean-shaven an IROJ?
The same thing on our Denver location of Twin City Security clean and neat look is always advised.
At Twin City Security Dallas we try to maintain a proper looking security guards so yeah I guess it depends on the company.
• It was common cause that the applicants were informed that they had to be neat. They denied that this meant that they had to be clean-shaven or trim their beards. • The respondent’s policy requires employees “to be personally clean, neat and hygienic. The employee acknowledges that he/she is in the Security Industry for which a clean-shaven facial appearance is required at all times.” • The applicants denied being shown the respondent’s employment policy document (Exhibit B) regarding their dress code when they were employed. However, they were aware of it by the time disciplinary action was being taken against them. They knew the standard of neatness required of them and the reason for it, namely, that they were employed in the security industry. They did not dispute that neatness was an IROJ but only that having an untrimmed beard was untidy. The issue for determination by the court therefore boils down to whether an untrimmed beard is neat. • Neatness is relative. To the applicant
