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Smelly Employee Fuels Hygiene Policy
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - City officials say
one smelly employee is responsible for a new policy that requires
all city employees to smell nice when reporting for work.
The Murfreesboro City Council adopted the good hygiene policy
Thursday:
"No employee shall have an odor generally offensive to others
when reporting to work. An offensive body odor may result from a
lack of good hygiene, from an excessive application of a fragrant
aftershave or cologne or from other cause."
City attorney Susan McGannon said the problem had never come up
in the 11 years she has worked for the city. But one employee, who
was not named, has a problem with hygiene despite repeated
counseling.
"They were stymied," McGannon said. "This (amendment) further
details the city's authority."
The definition of body odor was left intentionally vague. City
Councilman Toby Gilley said the standard would be the same one a
U.S. Supreme Court (news
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sites) justice used to identify pornography.
"We'll know it when we see it," Gilley said. "We'll know it when
we smell it."
Murfreesboro is about 30 miles southeast of Nashville.
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