Policy

The Employee Dress Code policy ensures that library system employees project a professional, business-like image while expressing a non-intimidating, approachable and comfortable image to our customers.

Regulations

1. Business casual dress is the standard for this dress code.
2. Staff members must dress appropriately for the community served, whether interior or exterior customers, and the job being performed, keeping in mind that the idea of fostering a positive professional image of the library system is important to public acceptance and support.
3. The Metropolitan Library System will make a reasonable effort to accommodate employees’ religious beliefs and ADA qualified disabilities.
4. Staff members must follow SH 650.1 Employee Dress Code Guidelines [5] in determining appropriate business casual dress.
5. Supervisors will discuss inappropriate business casual dress with individual staff members and determine what is inappropriate for each library, department, or office.
6. Employees deemed by supervisors to be dressed inappropriately or displaying improper personal hygiene may be sent home on their own time to change.
7. Inappropriate dress will be taken into consideration in performance appraisals. Employee standards apply if safety is an issue.
8. This code does not apply to uniformed employees.