Dress codes and uniforms

New and updated

• Date:

  29 September 2022

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Dress codes: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at three recent employment tribunal decisions concerning dress and jewellery codes that led to successful employment tribunal claims for religious discrimination and unfair constructive dismissal.

• Date:

  23 August 2022

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Tattoos in the workplace: dress codes and visible ink

  As employers like Virgin Atlantic relax their policies on visible tattoos in the workplace, Nicola Cockerill examines the benefits of redrafting dress codes to make them more ink-friendly and discusses the legal issues that can arise.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Dress and appearance policy

  Updated to include reference to dress and appearance when working remotely.

• Date:

  24 September 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Dress and appearance survey 2018

  XpertHR explores the different approaches taken by employers to dress and appearance in the workplace and the challenges involved in ensuring that rules are followed

• Date:

  1 June 2015

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR dress codes survey 2015

  The employer debate about whether or not to police employee appearance in the workplace remains very much alive in 2015, according to XpertHR's research into dress codes.

• Date:

  3 December 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Fashion retailer's "wardrobe guidelines" for staff did not suggest policy on employees' body sizes

  This constructive dismissal claim against a fashion retailer was unsuccessful, but it does reveal some of the difficulties that can arise when employers in this sector require their staff to project a particular image.

• Date:

  17 June 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Safety-related questions in job interview about Muslim woman's religious dress were not discriminatory

  This employment tribunal considered whether or not it was discrimination for a manager with health and safety concerns to ask a Muslim interviewee about her unusually long religious dress.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer ban jewellery from the workplace?

• Type:

  Tasks

  Establish a workplace dress code

• Date:

  7 March 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Dress and appearance: requirement for male firefighter to have short hair not direct sex discrimination

  The employer in this tribunal case successfully defended a man's sex discrimination claim over the common issue of its dress and appearance code applying different rules to men and women.