Course Description
Pre-Covid, the concept of “professional dress”
was under severe strain.
Today, as
we begin to return to the office, employees are using traditional
discrimination concepts in making claims of lifestyle discrimination based on
sexual orientation, gender identity, physical appearance, piercings, tattoos,
smoking, and other privacy/personal issues.
At what point does the employee’s right to
self-expression interfere with the employer’s right to set boundaries?
Employers
must find a happy medium between requiring appropriate dress among their
employees and respecting their legal rights. It is critical to establish a
balance between workers who favor more formal business attire and those who
want the freedom to wear their lifestyle choices.
Attend this CPE webinar to understand how to
implement/change a dress code policy and how to avoid becoming the “dress-code
policy.”
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Key topics discussed in this course:
- Dress codes
- The Case for Dress Codes
- HR’s role in developing and implementing Dress Codes
- Dress codes and the pandemic
- Tattoos
- “Distractive” clothing
- Piercings
- Grooming and Hygiene
- Transgender dress
- Miscellaneous Issues
- Communicating the dress code standards
Learning Objectives
- To discuss how to establish an acceptable and legal dress code policy.
- To analyze what are the latest issues with gender orientation and identity.
- To inspect how to change your company dress code (or institute one) without causing a revolt.
- To discuss how to handle provocative or inappropriate clothing.
- To analyze where dress codes and discrimination claims meet (and how to avoid them).
- To discuss how to deal with transgender dress-related issues.
- To investigate where the legal line is drawn when you have separate dress codes for men and women.
- To explain how to tailor your dress code to fit workers in different types of jobs-- from the warehouse to the corner office.
- To discuss how to effectively communicate your dress code expectations to workers.
- To inspect dealing with employees who consistently push the dress code envelope.
Recommended For
- This webinar for CPAs and CMAs is recommended for Top-level
management personnel, HR professionals, CEOs, CFOs, and Entrepreneurs desiring to understand
how to handle
sensitive dress code issues.
Who Should Attend?
- Business Owner
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- CFO/Controller
- CPA (Industry)
- CPA - Mid Size Firm
- CPA - Small Firm
- CPA in Business
- Entrepreneurial CPA
- HR Professionals
- Human Resources Manager
- Young CPA
