OAN’s Sophia Flores and Tom McGrath
5:41 PM – Thursday, December 21, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled that Whole Foods can ban employee apparel including Black Lives Matter badges.
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This week’s ruling declared such attire is unrelated to job requirements and is therefore subject to the employer’s discretion.
An NLRB general counsel argued that a Whole Foods employee should be entitled to wear BLM insignia in order to make themselves and their co-workers feel safer.
Workers at the grocery store giant began wearing buttons, clothing items and facemasks with BLM messaging in 2020. The movement began in the late spring and summer of that year after the nation went into a frenzy following the…
