Related, laws being passed to protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of their hair.
https://apnews.com/article/hairstyle-texture-discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-d6fd44b0226d4cd2d089953972377654
Honestly just fuck everything about sumptuary laws.
Their rationale is literally just that girls should have long hair and boys shouldn't. That boys having long hair looks "unprofessional."
Source: I went to a Christian high school. I got in trouble over this all the time. My hair is past my waist now.
got forced into that during school too, problem is that both Jesus and Mohammed had long hair
Not getting paid is also unprofessional. They aren't at work.