Can we set different dress codes for each department? ? Business ...

Q. We are a retail company with about 200 employees. We have six different departments. The supervisors are not agreeing on an overall dress code. They wondered if there?s any legal risk in having each department make and follow its own dress code. (Everyone works in the same office space.) ? Michele, Minnesota

A. There is no legal reason that you must have the same dress code for each department. If some employees work with customers, for example, it would make very good sense to have a different dress code for them (perhaps more formal, or perhaps modeling the items you sell) than for the office workers.

If, however, everyone works under the same roof with roughly the same needs to interact with others, it will be challenging to enforce different dress codes without causing some ill feelings.

However, as long as the rules do not discriminate between workers based on a protected classification (race, age, sex, religion, etc.), the problems with enforcement are likely to be employee relations issues and not legal concerns.

Like what you've read? ...Republish it and share great business tips!

Attention: Readers, Publishers, Editors, Bloggers, Media, Webmasters and more...

We believe great content should be read and passed around. After all, knowledge IS power. And good business can become great with the right information at their fingertips. If you'd like to share any of the insightful articles on BusinessManagementDaily.com, you may republish or syndicate it without charge.

The only thing we ask is that you keep the article exactly as it was written and formatted. You also need to include an attribution statement and link to the article.

" This information is proudly provided by Business Management Daily.com: http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/34161/can-we-set-different-dress-codes-for-each-department "

Source: http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/34161/can-we-set-different-dress-codes-for-each-department

act Black Ops 2 Secede ben roethlisberger Diwali elmo nascar