Saturday, March 22, 2014

Tattoo Removal A Booming Business These Days

By Cornelius Nunev


Many people, specifically recently-graduated 20 year olds, are out there trying to find work. However, some of them are having a tough time of it, some for the egregious sin of just having a tattoo. Some employers will not hire individuals with ink, leading to a boom in the tattoo removal business.

Getting a tattoo removed might be essential

Discrimination based on age, gender, race, sexual orientation and more are not the only things you have to stress about when applying for jobs. As much as we wish discrimination did not exist in the workplace, it does, and it does not matter how skilled you are for those who have some bad appearance. A tat-too is something employers discriminate against.

Tattoo removal companies are getting a ton of custom-ers, according to the Daily Mail, because companies are not very accepting of tattoos. It does not even matter that tattoos were a very important part of culture in the past; in fact, the work "picture" comes from a Celtic tribe called Picts which were known for their tattoos.

Getting a job in mail indus-try

According to Forbes, the U.S. USPS, Denny's and Starwood Hotels will not hire anybody with a visible tattoo. Likewise, any person with visible ink cannot help people save 15 percent or more on their car insurance by switching to GEICO, as the company won't hire them. Neither, according to the Omaha World-Herald, will sandwich chain Jimmy John's. However, B of A and All-state Insurance will.

In the last year, there as a 32 percent increase in laser tattoo removals, according to skin car group publication Patient's guide. Visible tattoos are one of the top reasons that a hiring manager would say no to an applicant, on top of bad breath and piercings, as shown in a CareerBuild-er.com survey, according to Forbes. About 40 percent of people getting tattoos removed are doing so to try and get a job.

Paying for tattoo removal can cost massive short term loans for a lot of people since, dependent upon the size of the treatment, a person will need about 10 treatments costing around $200 each. And that is the cost for just one tattoo. The removal process demands a topical anesthetic because it is very painful. It breaks up the ink in the skin and puts it to the blood-stream to be filtered out.

Cause of tattoo restriction

Companies have to discriminate because a lot of workers will be working directly with consumers. Not every-one wants to see ink when they are being helped. About 90 percent of jobs in the U.S. are for services where people will be seen by customers, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

So far, it hasn't been established what, if any, legal rights or recourse any per-son has concerning tattoo discrimination. At least one court case concerned a person who was not employed due to having tattoos, when a male in Luzerne County, Penn., sued the state for not hiring him as a liquor enforcement agent for having a tattoo in 2011. Religious tattoos do have legal protection such as in the case where Red Robin, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, successfully sued for firing a man who had religious tattoos. Red Robin settled in 2005 for $150,000.



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