A bill will be examined on March 28 in the National Assembly to penalize hair discrimination in the professional environment. A bill tabled by Guadeloupe MP Oliver Serva aims to criminalize distinctions based on “the texture, color, length or style of an individual's hair’ Ducros: The attempt to artificially import a problem from across the Atlantic is based on American examples.
The law already prohibits 25 grounds of discrimination: age, sex, state of health, accent... one specifically concerns physical appearance, which includes hairstyle.