Article: MALE FACIAL HAIR BAN? YOU'VE GOATEE BE JOKING; Court tells Dunnes to reinstate worker sacked for having beard.(News)

Byline: ANDREW BUSHE

A SHOP has been ordered to reinstate a worker fired because of a goatee beard he had worn for decades.

Dunnes Stores dis-missed William O'Byrne after he refused to either shave off his beard or wear a mask to hide it.

Labour Court Deputy Chairman Kevin Duffy found that there was no dispute over the facts of the case, but ruled that, in the case of Mr O'Byrne, Dunnes' dress code "restricted his freedom to determine his own appearance to a sign-ificantly greater degree than it does in the case of women".

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