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Discrimination By Employers Leading To Tattoo Removal Boom

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By Cornelius Nunev


Lots of people, especially recently-graduated 20 year olds, are out there trying to find work. However, some of them are having a difficult time of it, some for the egregious sin of just having a tattoo. Some employers refuse to hire individuals with ink, leading to a boom in the tattoo removal business.

Job prospects requiring tattoo removal for a few

Employers are getting real-ly picky, and apparently not many of them like to see employees with tattoos. Even though we wish companies would hire based on merit rather than appearance, there is discrimination still. Discrimination based on age, gender, race, and even sexual orientation are just the tip of the iceberg because tattoos are on the list too.

Tattoo removal businesses are getting a ton of consumers, according to the Daily Mail, because companies are not very accepting of tattoos. It does not even matter that tattoos were a very significant part of culture in the past; in fact, the work "picture" comes from a Celtic tribe called Picts which were known for their tattoos.

Visible tattoos not okay in USPS

There is a long list of businesses that will not hire those who have visible tattoos, though B of A and Allstate Insurance will. The list contains, Starwood hotels, the U.S. Postal service and Denny's, ac-cording to Forbes. IT also consists of sandwich chain Jimmy John's, accord-ing to the Omaha world-Herald, and GEICO will not hire anybody with visible ink.

Patient's Guide, a group of skin care industry publications, according to the Daily Mail, reports a 32 percent increase in laser tattoo removals in the past year. Many of the customers, upwards of 40 percent, are doing so for the purposes of gaining job. According to Forbes, a CareerBuilder.com survey of HR professionals revealed visible tattoos were one of the top three reasons a hiring manager would pass on an applicant, superseded only by bad breath and pierc-ings.

Paying for tattoo removal can cost enormous short term loans for a lot of people since, depending on the size of the treatment, a person will need about 10 treatments costing around $200 each. And that is the cost for just one tattoo. The removal process requires a topical anesthetic because it is very painful. It breaks up the ink in the skin and puts it into the blood-stream to be filtered out.

Customers might not like it

Part of the problem with tattoo discrimination is that the bulk of employment is in some sort of service, where a person might have to deal with consumers. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, roughly 90 percent of all jobs in the U.S. are in services. Not all people take kindly to ink.

There was one court case in 2011 where a man sued the state of Pennsylvania be-cause they would not hire him with tattoos to work as a liquor enforcement agent. The Equal Oppor-tunity Commission points out religious tattoos are always protected, as was the case when Red Robin was sued for firing a man who had religious tattoos. The restaurant had to pay $150,000 in 2005 in a settlement with the man. It is unknown what legal rights people really have with regards to tattoos.



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