No Beards Allowed – level 1

13-06-2017 07:00

A British construction firm bans workers from having beards. It says that this helps them wear dust masks better. However, men with religious or medical reasons have exceptions.

A worker’s group is not happy with the company. It does not like that the company asks its workers to shave their beards. The company is also not happy that the group says this.
Difficult words: ban  (block), dust mask (a small mask that you wear over your mouth to stop you from breathing in small things), exception (when you are allowed not to follow a rule).

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