Beatrice Meza
ENGL 1312
Tattoos in the Workplace
Tattoos are a popular way to express your individuality and can be found on countless numbers of people. Unfortunately with tattoos comes consequence. A major reason people are unsure when getting a tattoo is the ability to attain a job. Tattoos are deemed as unprofessional and must be covered or concealed when possible. This is unfair, to judge someone, quite literally by the color of their skin. The only way a problem like this can be resolved is by passing some sort of law or regulation that gives those with tattoos some sort of rights when it comes to employment.
Tattoos have become a way of life to many people. A tattoo is considered art on one’s body, it is a form of expression and one should not be forced to cover it up. Most employers require tattoos to be covered up, some don’t allow them at all, while others, like Borders or the Ford Motor Company allow tattoos and think it’s a plus, making the employee more interesting and approachable by other people or customers. Clearly showing tattoos causes no harm or loss to the company, and the tattoos themselves are completely sterile. Healed tattoos act like normal skin, and so there is no risk for infection, which allows people in the medical field such as doctors and nurses to have tattoos. Displaying tattoos seems to have no negative effects as long as the tattoo itself stays un-offensive.
Rules and regulation exist everywhere and so an additional law, allowing tattoos in the workplace, will fit right in. A law seems like the only guaranteed way to enforce something as widespread as this. The law would allow the employee to freely display their tattoos and prohibit the employer from discriminating against the employee for having tattoos as long as the tattoos do not interfere with the duties of the job, and are not offensive. The way one would determine the offensive nature of the tattoo would have to be by a general consensus of the employers in the specific situation.
Allowing tattoos to be shown in the workplace would generally benefit everyone in the end. Employees can proudly display their ink while helping tattoos become a normal thing that people can readily accept, even admire. Even if no law or regulation ever gets passed, as time goes on, the tattooed youth of today will become the managers and leaders of tomorrow. Work policies will be changed and the workplace will be an openly accepting place, maybe even for body modification.
References:
http://beinglatino.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/workplace.png
ENGL 1312
Tattoos in the Workplace
Tattoos are a popular way to express your individuality and can be found on countless numbers of people. Unfortunately with tattoos comes consequence. A major reason people are unsure when getting a tattoo is the ability to attain a job. Tattoos are deemed as unprofessional and must be covered or concealed when possible. This is unfair, to judge someone, quite literally by the color of their skin. The only way a problem like this can be resolved is by passing some sort of law or regulation that gives those with tattoos some sort of rights when it comes to employment.
Tattoos have become a way of life to many people. A tattoo is considered art on one’s body, it is a form of expression and one should not be forced to cover it up. Most employers require tattoos to be covered up, some don’t allow them at all, while others, like Borders or the Ford Motor Company allow tattoos and think it’s a plus, making the employee more interesting and approachable by other people or customers. Clearly showing tattoos causes no harm or loss to the company, and the tattoos themselves are completely sterile. Healed tattoos act like normal skin, and so there is no risk for infection, which allows people in the medical field such as doctors and nurses to have tattoos. Displaying tattoos seems to have no negative effects as long as the tattoo itself stays un-offensive.
Rules and regulation exist everywhere and so an additional law, allowing tattoos in the workplace, will fit right in. A law seems like the only guaranteed way to enforce something as widespread as this. The law would allow the employee to freely display their tattoos and prohibit the employer from discriminating against the employee for having tattoos as long as the tattoos do not interfere with the duties of the job, and are not offensive. The way one would determine the offensive nature of the tattoo would have to be by a general consensus of the employers in the specific situation.
Allowing tattoos to be shown in the workplace would generally benefit everyone in the end. Employees can proudly display their ink while helping tattoos become a normal thing that people can readily accept, even admire. Even if no law or regulation ever gets passed, as time goes on, the tattooed youth of today will become the managers and leaders of tomorrow. Work policies will be changed and the workplace will be an openly accepting place, maybe even for body modification.
References:
http://beinglatino.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/workplace.png
