Grooming codes may be used in the workplace.Which of the following is likely to NOT be upheld as an acceptable grooming policy of an employer?

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The codes can be pretty much whatever the employer wants, unless a policy violates the law, such as being illegally discriminatory on the basis of gender. In making this determination, employers can use reasonable standards of what is generally thought to be male- or female-appropriate attire in a business setting. For instance, a Florida city council wanting to "clean up," instituted a dress code requiring employees to wear underwear and use deodorant. It also prohibited exposed underwear, clothing with "foul" language, "sexually provocative" clothes, and piercings anywhere except the ears.
Courts also have upheld grooming codes that required, among other things, male supermarket clerks to wear ties, female employees to not wear pants, a female attorney to "tone down" her "flashy" attire, and male and female flight attendants to keep their weight down. Not permitted was requiring male employees to wear "normal business attire" and women to wear uniforms, though both performed the same duties. The court found "there is a natural tendency to assume that the uniformed women have a lesser professional status than their male colleagues attired in normal business clothes."

Grooming Codes May Be Used in the Workplace