Marisa and Angel 5/11/11

In Steven Greenhouse's "Going For The Look, but Risking Discrimination," he states that "companies have been skirting the edges of anti-discrimination laws." This is a thin line for companies between discrimination and projecting an image. On one hand, a company has every right to hire who they want to represent them. On the other hand, the general public might see this as discriminating. For example, a tuxedo company would most likely hire a clean shaven, attractive, young man, not someone with piercings, tattoos, or a mohawk. To the company, this is just projecting an image, but to that tattooed reject it might seem as though they were judging and discriminating against him. So is this discrimination? Or is this just a companies' right? No, this is not discrimination, and companies have the right to hire whoever they want if it's not crossing the line of being biased against race, religion, age, or sex. "Skirting the edges of anti-discrimination" is controversial, but ultimately is the companies decision to select who they want to work for them.