Question

Email that Informs and Requests: Dress Code Controversy

As the Montreal-based director of Human Resources at Sensational, you have not have a good week. The national media recently reported the fact that Sensational- a leading women's fashion chain-has been taken before Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission to defend against a claim by a young woman . The young woman recently applied for a job at a Halifax Sensational location and was told in pre-interview with a manager that "she'd never be hired if she wore her headdress to work." Citing the Commission's website claim that "its against the law to fire an employee because she wear clothing that is required by his religion," the young woman logged a complaint. Head office in Vancouver has been in damage-control mode ever since.

Your Task: Quickly realizing the effects the negative media reporting will have, you draft an email to all employees. The purpose of the email is to reaffirm that Sensational abides by and supports all Canadian Human rights legislation and, at the same time, that employees should not talk to any media that may ask them for comments. You realize that these two messages are somewhat contradictory (one positive, one negative), but you feel time is of the essence.

Related Website: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission (www.gov.ns.ca/humanrights)

Answer 1

Goodevening Everyone,

I hope you all are aware with the things happening around us. I am giving brief of it The national media recently reported that A young woman recently applied for a job at a Halifax Sensational location and was told in pre-interview with a manager that "she'd never be hired if she wore her headdress to work" the young woman logged a complaint. It is a hard time for us as the media is making the things more worse. I assure all of you that we support all Canadian Human Rights legislation, we are not against it. It is matter of concern and we will take a strict action against the interviewer as soon as possible. Now,I want a favour from all of you that please donot talk to any media that may ask you for the comments as it will make our situation worse. Please stay away from them and try to avoid it. Because the reputation of our organisation are in the hands of us. I urge all of you to please cooperate with us and surely we will come up with a satisfaction judgment. We are not against to any religion we respect each and every religion.Thankyou for supporting us as we need support of you in this hard time for our organisation.

Sincerely

Director of Human Resource