Give Me A Break...!
Aren't we getting more than a trifle unnecessarily fussy about the manner in which people present themselves? It's true I find it hard to take someone seriously who has, in an excess of youthful impulse, festooned themselves facially with bits of metal. Perhaps the metal worn on eyelids, tongues and elsewhere is felt to enhance natural beauty.
Perhaps it's their idea of standing out from the crowd. That crowd, including myself pleased to wear metal on fingers and hanging around our necks.
But we're a civil society and make every attempt to fairly judge people, not by their appearance necessarily, but by their behaviour, the decisions they make, the actions they take, the trust or lack of that they inspire in us by demonstrating values similar to our own in other respects.
Now, Halima Muse, a baggage screener for Toronto's Pearson International Airport is appealing her dismissal from a job she feels she performed more than adequately.
Her dismissal by the security firm Garda, working under contract with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority which found fault with her decision, as an observant Muslim, to alter her uniform. She had the choice of wearing trousers or a skirt with her uniform, and finding trousers uncomfortable, undertook to herself design a longer skirt of fabric identical to that supplied by her employer.
It was this ankle-length skirt which Ms. Muse wore while X-raying hand luggage and waving a metal detector over travellers in the course of her duties, not the manner in which she conducted her duties, that offended her employer. How utterly irrelevant to the manner in which she performed her duties.
How absurd on the face of it to seek to enforce a company rule about skirt lengths for female employees.
Exceedingly strange that other employees who chose to shorten the company-provided knee-length skirts to more adequately express their views of themselves as fashionable and fetching females were not similarly relieved of their duties for deviating from company dress policy.
Perhaps it's their idea of standing out from the crowd. That crowd, including myself pleased to wear metal on fingers and hanging around our necks.
But we're a civil society and make every attempt to fairly judge people, not by their appearance necessarily, but by their behaviour, the decisions they make, the actions they take, the trust or lack of that they inspire in us by demonstrating values similar to our own in other respects.
Now, Halima Muse, a baggage screener for Toronto's Pearson International Airport is appealing her dismissal from a job she feels she performed more than adequately.
Her dismissal by the security firm Garda, working under contract with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority which found fault with her decision, as an observant Muslim, to alter her uniform. She had the choice of wearing trousers or a skirt with her uniform, and finding trousers uncomfortable, undertook to herself design a longer skirt of fabric identical to that supplied by her employer.
It was this ankle-length skirt which Ms. Muse wore while X-raying hand luggage and waving a metal detector over travellers in the course of her duties, not the manner in which she conducted her duties, that offended her employer. How utterly irrelevant to the manner in which she performed her duties.
How absurd on the face of it to seek to enforce a company rule about skirt lengths for female employees.
Exceedingly strange that other employees who chose to shorten the company-provided knee-length skirts to more adequately express their views of themselves as fashionable and fetching females were not similarly relieved of their duties for deviating from company dress policy.
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