A Boston Rastafarian Man Can Sue Jiffy Lube Over His Religious Practices!

A Boston Rastafarian man who, is employed with Jiffy Lube, can sue the company over their grooming policy because it interferes with his religious practices. In order to continue working directly with the public,Bobby Brown was told that he would have to cut his dreads & shave. That goes against the whole Rastafari religion. In their eyes, it goes against Jah. Here's an excerpt from Forbes.com:

"A Rastafarian man who refused to shave off his beard or cut his hair to comply with Jiffy Lube's employee grooming policy can take his religious discrimination case to trial, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Tuesday.

The Supreme Judicial Court reversed a decision by a Superior Court judge who had dismissed Bobby T. Brown's lawsuit against Jiffy Lube before a trial.

Brown worked as a technician at a Hadley Jiffy Lube business owned by F.L. Roberts & Co. Inc.

In 2002, after Jiffy Lube put a new grooming policy in place requiring employees who worked with customers to be clean-shaven, Brown told management that his religion does not permit him to shave or cut his hair. Managers then said Brown could work only in lower bays where he did not have contact with customers.

Brown filed a discrimination lawsuit in state court in 2006. A Superior Court judge agreed with the company that it had the right to control its public image and found that it would be an undue hardship on the company to grant Brown an exemption from the grooming policy.

But the SJC disagreed, saying Jiffy Lube had not proven that no other accommodation was possible for Brown without imposing an undue hardship on the company." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/12/02/ap5769900.html

This first video is about Emperor Haile Selassie I.He is the basis of the Rastafari religion.The second video talks about why Rastafarians don't want to cut their hair.