Whole Foods Fight Over Black Lives Matter Masks Pits National Labor Relations Board Against Free Speech
Posted on AllSides January 27th, 2022
From The Right
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ANALYSIS
Are employee dress codes illegal? That's the implication in a consolidated complaint filed against Whole Foods Market by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The NLRB argues that it's illegal for Whole Foods to say that grocery store staff can't wear Black Lives Matter (BLM) paraphernalia at work.
To force Whole Foods to let staff wear BLM gear would be "to compel employer speech," the company counters. And that, it says, violates the First Amendment.
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