New York City this week is issuing the country’s first-ever ban on employer policies and practices that discriminate against how black people wear their hair.
Guidelines from the New York City Commission on Human Rights state that while employers can impose requirements around maintaining a work-appropriate appearance, a grooming policy that prohibits locs, cornrows, Bantu knots and other such hairstyles will be considered racial bias. The law does not apply to employers with fewer than four employees.
