![]() It is legitimate to not give a job to someone because you don’t like their tattoos.” Jonathan Naylor, partner at Shoosmiths, the law firm, says while employers cannot discriminate against characteristics such as race or disability, “tattoos are not a protected characteristic. Companies are within their rights under employment law to not hire someone because they have a tattoo. Its small-scale survey of hiring managers found that visible tattoos were likely to severely restrict employment prospects.Įmployers, including the regional director of an accounting firm, told the researchers they would be reluctant to hire people with visible tattoos in case clients and customers were put off. Mr Timming’s research over the past few years, which showed that human resources managers were less likely to hire a person if they had a tattoo, was backed up last month by Acas, the conciliation service. It is legitimate to not give a job to someone because you don’t like their tattoos Jonathan Naylor, Shoosmiths Tattoos are not a protected characteristic. ![]() And I’d expect a greater percentage of risk-takers in the City than other jobs.”īut the increasing prevalence of tattoos, especially among those below the age of 35, does not mean they are widely accepted in the office. “There is a lot of psychological research that links - empirically - tattoos with risk-taking behaviours,” he says. He says he believes there to be a “tidal wave” of tattoos hidden under the shirts of City workers. ![]() Indeed, you are nearly as likely to see them on the bodies of bankers. He points out the days of tattoos only being seen on the arms of footballers, sailors or pop stars are long gone. In the US, 32 per cent of 18-44 year-olds have at least one.Īndrew Timming, a reader at the School of Management, University of St Andrews, specialises in researching tattoos in the workplace. A YouGov poll last year found19 per cent of adults in the UK had a tattoo. The hamburger chain Byron is among the companies it owns.īut times are changing. He is a partner at Hutton Collins, a small private equity firm based in St James’s, one of the most exclusive areas of London. It is inked in about 32 point and surrounded by a border to make it look like an inscription on a monument.Ī generation ago, Mr Varney, 44, who read Classics at Oxford, would have been the last sort of person one might have expected to have a tattoo. In his case, it is most definitely not countercultural - the tattoo is a quotation from the Roman historian Livy: “ Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est”, or “acting and suffering bravely is the attribute of a Roman”. “I don’t think it’s any more about making an aggressive countercultural statement,” says Hugo Varney, unrolling his shirt sleeve to display a large tattoo, which he got three years ago on his forearm. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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