Just because tattoos are becoming popular in fashion does not mean that they are acceptable. If running around naked became popular would we make sure that everyone would be allowed to do it just because it could be called discrimination if we didn’t? Not allowing visible tattoos in the workplace is completely different from being prejudice against someone’s skin color, or race. What someone purposely puts on their body is different from the skin someone is born with. It is simply putting regulation on employee uniform.
The law does not say that tattoos are not allowed at all, it’s just they can’t be seen while you are at work. It is in fact more professional to not have graffiti all over your body while you are working hard to represent a well respected company. The city has every right to chose what the employee should wear and how they should look while representing the city.
I understand that some tattoos have special meaning, but if you choose to have that special meaning displayed PERMANENTLY on your body, why not have it somewhere where it can easily be hidden while at work and then shown off on your own free time? When you get old and wrinkled the image or words will become distorted then what are you going to do when you have something hideous on your arm that you can’t hide and no one can tell what it is? There has to be a professional atmosphere in the work place, especially when you are representing a city. If you have a tattoo that you don’t want to hide while working then work somewhere else.
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