Unemployment and appearance
Sir,—Your “Reporter’s Diary” (June 23) gives undue attention too credulously to the “visiting Queensland man.” He is a perpetrator of a myth that unemployed cannot find work because of their dress and appearance. Of course there must be examples of a few who are unattractive but why should anyone suggest the problem is general? This is really blaming the victim; if there are 20 applicants for one job then clearly 19 cannot get it however they dress, even if it be in the synthetic-fabric suits and fascist haircuts so beloved by conservatives. And why should an employer judge presentation and thence eligibility for the dole when he would not employ that person because there is no vacancy left anyway? — Yours, etc., L. M. SLATER, Upper Moutere. June 23, 1983.
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