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Congress has considered legislation several times that would prohibit employers from discriminating based on an individual’s hair texture or hairstyle if that hair texture or that hairstyle is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.
But it has never passed.
Why? Because many believe that this law is unnecessary since Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 already forbids discrimination based on race and national origin.
Indeed, earlier this month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it had settled a race discrimination lawsuit that centered around an employer’s alleged treatment of a black employee
