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Linklaters signs UK code protecting Afro hair in the workplace
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Linklaters has adopted the UK’s first Black hair code to protect the rights of its employees to embrace natural hairstyles in the workplace.

Despite hair being a protected racial characteristic under the Equalities Act 2010, hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice for Black people in the UK.