Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings.

Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market doesn’t want to be forced to let workers wear “Black Lives Matter” masks and is pointing to the recent US Supreme Court ruling permitting a business owner to refuse services to same-sex couples to get federal regulators to back off.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have accused the grocer of stifling worker rights by banning staff from wearing BLM masks or pins on the job. The company countered in a filing that its own rights are being violated if it’s forced to allow BLM slogans to be worn with Whole Foods uniforms.

Amazon is the most prominent company to use the high court’s June ruling that a Christian web designer was free to refuse to design sites for gay weddings, saying the case “provides a clear roadmap” to throw out the NLRB’s complaint.

The dispute is one of several in which labor board officials are considering what counts as legally-protected, work-related communication and activism on the job.

    • Saik0AEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Care to elaborate? Or are we just going to drive-by name call and add nothing to the conversation?

      I don’t think I am… That situation doesn’t even apply to this story. This would imply that workers don’t have access to the dress code prior to starting the job, which I’ve already shown isn’t the case (somewhere… might not have been in this particular thread). This stupid situation would make more sense if Elon told you that in order to fly with him you needed to dress like a stripper prior to getting on the plane… then you get on the plane and get mad when he ejects you for not being in proper uniform.

      You call it pedantic… but EVEN in this stupidly constructed case… it’s a dumb premise and it’s clear that the right persists regardless.