Hooters has been a popular restaurant known for spicy wings in the restaurant business for more than 27 years. They have been represented by its attractive and beautiful waitresses as known as Hooters Girls. The Hooters girl is a trademark not only the America but across the world. This image Hooters created has flourished for years and is still going strong. From the exposing outfits depicting sex appeal brings customers back for more. Unlike most restaurants there are some regulations Hooters has put in place to ensure that their waitresses are top quality. Physical appearance and a smile is everything at Hooters and it’s what brings everybody coming back. Hooters has ignited much controversy over the years on the line of discrimination …show more content…
Hooters chooses to focus on surface level diversity in their organization when hiring to help maintain the image of a Hooters Girl. Is being fired for being too heavy illegal under federal and state law are one of the many questions that may arise from such a lawsuit. It's hard to deny the fact that firing someone for physical reasons isn’t an unequal treatment and a case of affirmative action could be used against Hooters. From this point, Hooters will obviously lose the lawsuit. However, Hooters does acknowledge the fact that the Hooters Girl has become a uniqueness of her own and that the Hooters Girls are the character of Hooters. Not to mention, it’s a known fact that a major part of their business is of men customers due to the attractive physical appearance of the Hooters Girl. In fact, it’s obvious that physical appearance is an important factor in this company when it comes to hiring wait staff. For this reason, Hooters action of firing these two women may not be illegal under state and federal law. Waitresses have to comply with company policy and are aware of that policy before being hired. It does, although appear and make the company seem biased against larger …show more content…
Smith and Ms. Convery may convey a perception of discrimination like mentioned above. However, looking into Hooter’s validation of Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) could deter that perception. To fully understand the reason for termination one must look at the guidelines for defining BFOQ. The guidelines, reference an employer has the right to base their employment for their company on certain qualifications. The qualifications of a certain class or group of employees must be necessary and essential to the daily operations of the business This ruling allows for permissible discrimination based on race, sex, age, and national origin, which is a direct violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act is a law that protects employees from this type of situation. However, in Ms. Smith and Ms. Convery situation, they may have a met the qualification at the beginning of their employment to Hooters. Consequently, Hooters has the right to reevaluate its employees to ensure they are following Hooters guidelines. The definition of a bona fide occupational qualification has been a complex issue even with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It is a company’s due diligence to prove without a reasonable doubt the job Ms. Smith and Ms. Convery were hired for falls under BFOQ guidelines. They must prove the employment qualification, which is this case the women’s’ weight is based on necessity and the job couldn’t be
The law prohibits discrimination when it comes to any phase of employing someone, including hiring, firing, getting a raise, getting a promotion and other related stuff.
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This is a good question. Walmart started as a small five and dime in the city of Bentonville, Arkansas by a man named Sam Walton. After a great success Sam and his wife Helen moved to Rogers, Arkansas where he opened his very first Walmart. He had some retailing experience after his time in the war and he chose Bentonville for the hunting season and because his wife wanted to live in a small town. His ideas of not pocketing extra cash from manufacturers, but rather giving deals to customers and trying to make profit off of how much he sold, changed the way retailers make money in America. Sam had a cheap mindset, not only for his customers, but for himself. Even when he became the richest man in America he continued to get his hair done for
Employee discrimination occurs when an employer harasses or terminate an employee purely because of race, religion, gender, age, national origin, and/or disabilities. While there have been great improvements in eliminating these discriminatory actions, sexual orientation and/or gender identity based discrimination isn’t
...are lazy and will only slack off and try to come at my female employees” I was upset but couldn’t say anything. That was probably my only time I ever dealt with a type of discrimination.
The employment decision would unfairly disadvantage any future job applicants that are considered fat, unattractive, or unusual looking.
Everyone has a breaking point and the fact that some people may be able to handle certain job types more than others does not excuse employers from having a duty to the health and welfare of their employees.
Another type of gender discrimination when employers are hiring is when, for example, a woman is not considered for a job that is traditionally “a man’s job.” ("Sex Discrimination: Your Rights at Work") This discrimination is also against the law and is based on bias. Again, women can do the same jobs that men can, and it should not matter what job a woman is applying for if she is adequate for the job. Unfortunately, most women do not even consider those
Wal-Mart is one of the largest companies in the first 10 of Fortune 500. It based its growth on supplying the needs of people of all works of life at an extremely low price.
Are you thinking about going to McDonald’s any time soon, well I would rethink that because there are so many bad things about McDonald's. People need to stop eating at McDonalds because it’s not healthy and it’s not sanitary or eco-friendly.
Discrimination is defined as an “unfair treatment of a person, racial group, minority, or an action based on prejudice”, it means to “distinguish, single out, or make a distinction between two people” (Gender). There are many ways that someone might be discriminated against in the workplace. Often you cannot pick up a newspaper and read through it without reading about at least one workplace discrimination case. Workplace discrimination can be anything from being treated unfavorably because of your skin color to something as simple as a personality trait. Whether the discrimination comes from a supervisor, co-worker or even a customer, it is considered illegal. The US. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Discrimination in the hiring process can include not hiring for reasons such as, the employee’s sex or possibly changing the physical ability test to create hard time for the female to complete the test, even creating a physical test with the tasks that are not normal to the fire service. Additionally, it may seem to some individuals that treating a woman like the examples given above can drastically hurt the reputation of the fire department and yourself, as well as causing legal
While many people face certain issues with campus dining, one of the few issues that really bother me is the dining hall hours. Ball State has the times listed on their website which most of the time they do not stay true to. Here I will list the times for you; breakfast is 6:45-10:29, lunch is 10:30-4:29, and dinner is 4:30-midnight. While I have gone in during those times to eat they dining halls are usually all packed up and starting to get ready for the next mealtime. I especially feel that they do not stay true to the dinnertime. All too often I will go into a dining hall around 8:30 and they main cuisines will already be packing up. This leaves people who are either working on homework or at work themselves hungry when they get the chance to finally eat. 82.35% of the people who took my survey said that they spent their time studying or working on homework. I asked if anyone has ever skipped dinner because they did not like the food options after everything has closed. 70.59% said yes to having skipped dinner. While this may be a problem I feel that one of three solutions could be the answer to fix it all. I believe that the dining hall could either leave one specific dining hall with all options open until twelve, have all of the dining halls open until twelve as said by Ball State, or better yet, change the dining times.
All over the world, we hear about people treating each other prejudicially depending on their background, ethnicity, or sex orientation. Workplaces should be free from all personal biases but unfortunately, we hear about employees being discriminated against, almost, on a daily basis. Workplace discrimination can be described as treating an individual or a group of people differently than others. It also can take more serious and threatening forms such as sexual harassment. It can be expressed in the form of offensive jokes, unwelcomed body contacts, inappropriate gestures, or even direct sexual contact.
“We need to teach our children to eat real food. No fast foods. No junk foods. No processed foods. Just honest, nutritious, real food.” As the years go by many more people are becoming obese because they consume too much fast food. People need to get in habits to cook at home rather than eating out everyday for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. People in this world are now always trying to look for the easy way out of things. Eating out at a fast food restaurant is not a healthy meal to eat. We the people need to avoid the fast food restaurants and stop being lazy and have home cooked meals everyday. Although fast food is convenient for everyone, it causes obesity and consuming too much fast food can lead to type 2 diabetes.