Judge Sides with Whole Foods in Lawsuit Over Banning BLM Apparel for Workers
Whole Foods grocery workers claiming they were unfairly disciplined for wearing Black Lives Matter-themed pins, masks and other items in 2020 have lost a round in their complaint to the National Labor Relations Board.
Administrative Law Judge Ariel Sotolongo ruled that because wearing Black Lives Matter items was not connected to their jobs, punishment for doing so when Whole Foods managers said they could not was not a labor law violation, according to CNN.
The decision can be appealed to the board.
The ruling covered 14 employees in four states who said disciplinary actions Whole Foods claimed were violations of its dress code were retaliation.
“In many instances employees started donning BLM messaging,
