Saturday 22 March 2014

Discrimination By Employers Leading To Tattoo Removal Boom

By Cornelius Nunev


The tattoo removal business is booming these days. Partly, it is thanks to some businesses neglecting to hire those who have been inked.

Getting a job requiring tattoo removal

In an ideal world, image wouldn't matter to companies and peers as much as character and achievements. Unfortunately, that is not the way it works. Aside from discrimination on basis of age, gender, race, sexual orientation and so forth, another as-pect of a person's makeup that is subject to discrimination is whether or not they have a tattoo.

Tattoo removal companies 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 essential part of culture in the past; in fact, the work "picture" comes from a Celtic tribe called Picts that were known for their tattoos.

Getting a job in mail indus-try

According to Forbes, the United States Postal service, Denny's and Starwood Hotels will not hire everyone with a visible tattoo. Likewise, everyone with visible ink cannot help people save 15 percent or more on their car insurance by switching to GEICO, as the business will not hire them. Neither, according to the Omaha World-Herald, will sandwich chain Jimmy John's. However, Bank of America and All-state Insurance will.

During the last year, there as a 32 percent increase in laser tattoo removals, according to skin car group publication Patient's guide. Visible tattoos are one of the top reasons that a hiring manager would say no to an applicant, on top of bad breath and piercings, as shown in a CareerBuild-er.com survey, according to Forbes. About 40 percent of people getting tattoos removed are doing so to try and get a job.

Paying for tattoo removal can cost large short term loans for some 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 demands 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 do not want to see tattoos

Part of the issue with tattoo discrimination is that the bulk of job is in some kind of service, where an individual might have to deal with cus-tomers. 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 male 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 male 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 on the subject of tattoos.



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