Changing life styles and the problems of authority in the plant1. Hair and beards in arbitration

An analysis and comparison of three arbitration opinions regarding personal grooming requirements and, in particular, hair-and-beard regulations promulgated by employers. Such regulations are not a matter of managerial discretion, but must meet the test of reasonableness. Valtin notes that arbitrators tend to apply old-fashioned analyses to workplace controversies involving the new morality and changed lifestyles.