Steven K. Ludwig was quoted in the Philadelphia
Business Journal article, "The Tattoo Taboo." Full text can be found in the
April 24, 2015, issue, but a synopsis
is noted below.
Notably, about 42 percent of American adults have tattoos.
In the workplace, the legalities regarding discrimination on these
types of body modifications are sometimes complicated.
Although employees are not technically protected from
getting fired on the basis of tattoos or piercings, there are some
exceptions.
Steven K. Ludwig states that, "The question then
becomes, 'Is there an obligation from the employer to
accommodate the religion, and can the employer prove it's an
undue hardship?'"
Employers are allowed to have rules against tattoos,
secular or not, but they must have business justification, Ludwig
elaborates. "There's no law that says it has to be written
down," he says. However, he stressed the importance of putting
such rules in writing in order to form a better argument
