Hairy discrimination

A publican, Neil Wagstaff, was ordered to pay £566 (£66 loss of earnings, £500 for injury to feelings) to a prospective barman whose interview was cut short when he refused to cut his fifteen inch pony-tail. At tribunal Mark Pell argued that a woman would not have been asked to cut her hair, and the Sheffield Industrial Tribunal agreed that the hair policy was ‘outmoded’.