Bright colour hair?

Cereza

I've been working in the Civil Service for over two months now in DWP. My job is strickly phones and involves no contact with customers.

Is it against the uniform rules to dye my hair bright red?

dickydonkin

I would have thought that as your job is 'strickly' phones, then I am assuming you will have contact with customers - albeit invisible and they would not be able to see your 'bright red' hair anyway.

Shouldn't you be asking your manager about uniform rules rather that posting on here?...........assuming this is a serious post of course ;-)

Cereza

dickydonkin wrote: »

I would have thought that as your job is 'strickly' phones, then I am assuming you will have contact with customers - albeit invisible and they would not be able to see your 'bright red' hair anyway.

Shouldn't you be asking your manager about uniform rules rather that posting on here?...........assuming this is a serious post of course ;-)

Its more of a.. 'spur of the moment' thing. If I go through with it, I wont have time to ask my manager..

System

Look though your contract, specifically dress code. Some times companies specify that you can only have natural coloured hair (which is ridiculous, and the reason i recently bought a wig to cover my pink hair )

MissSarah1972

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

Look though your contract, specifically dress code. Some times companies specify that you can only have natural coloured hair (which is ridiculous, and the reason i recently bought a wig to cover my pink hair )

they would have to check every 'blonde'! lol

System

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

they would have to check every 'blonde'! lol

Indeed, not to mention all the older ladies and gents who should be grey!

jackieb

They probably mean a natural hair colour. Maybe not that person's natural colour, but if someone dyed their hair from grey to brown - brown is a natural hair colour - bright red, blue, pink, green, etc is never anyone's natural hair colour.

tygr

I had blue and purple patches in my hair whilst in the civil service. I was going through a bit of an emotional crisis at the time but my managers liked it rather than telling me off for it. "Spur of the moment" can wait. If you're concerned, postpone and ask your manager first.

missile

If you have wild hair colour and style, look scruffy, have vissible body piercings and tatoos your colleagues may judge you unfairly.

paddyrg

Maybe try going in with one of those spray-in colors first, or a dye that lasts for a few washes. If you are sent home, you at least have the option of an afternoon in the shower as opposed to an afternoon with the clippers and wig shopping

csmw

There are no rules in dwp for hair colour, I change mine all the time and am customer facing they've never had a problem with it