Can a woman work in a place where she has to expose her arms?

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Assalaamu Alaykum w,w
A few questions.
A sister is working in hospital on dialysis unit and she has just been told that in order to maintain infection control she must not wear long sleaves. She just started the job recently after doing horrible jobs. Now the thing is that she doesnt wear jilbab and also wears trousers with khimar so its not like she wears correct hijab anyway and on top of that she has to touch some men (just on the arm) so basically she is doing some haram but she said to me she is upset beacuse she has to show some of her arms, i wasnt sure what to say because i thought she is doing haram anyway!!! but she has to work as she has no mehram to look after her so i said that i dont see her point as she is doing haram anyway, why worry about some of it and not the rest…she said that just because she is doing somethings haram it doesnt mean she has to do all of them haram (that wasnt my intention i just meant that how did she decide its better to touch men and not wear jilbab but not to show arms) but i dont know what to say to her now as i feel sorry for her.
She is not qualiified to do much else and all the places that she has applied do not allow jilbabs or she cannot get a job due to prejudice, what should she do?

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Asked on January 1, 1970 12:00 am
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She must find out what are the proper legal regulations. I am sure it is in favour of covering up. let all this 'handling' be done in a public area.

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Answered on January 1, 1970 12:00 am