Thursday, March 28, 2024

Theatre Changes Policy to Fire Employees Who Wear Dreadlocks Due to Pressure

Tyler House
Tyler House

*Talk about a turnabout that came about a little too late. The Marcus Country Club Hills Cinema hired Honors student Tyler House after a fantastic interview, but then fired her on the first day of work because of her dreadlocks hairstyle.

After 16-year-old House shook hands with the manager who bid her a hasty adieu after declaring, ‘Dreads are not allowed,’ the disappointed teen who said she was shocked at the outcome because she had actually made the interviewer laugh, went home.

But this was not the end of the issue. The teen’s mother, Darnetta Herring, shared her confusion on the decision — which had recently been given legs via a judicial ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling determined employers have the right to terminate staff who wear the hairstyle.

Herring wondered:

“Why is it that dreadlocks are not permitted in your employees but it’s OK for us to spend our dreadlock money in your company? I don’t understand. They come to an African American neighborhood but they discriminate against some of us. I don`t understand it.”

House’s sister took to social media to share the experience and people became outraged. The post was shared more than a thousand times, with some even suggesting a boycott.

After getting wind of this, the theater is backsliding now. In a statement they said…

Read more and watch the video report at EURThisNthat.

 

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