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.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Do workers have the right to refuse to be associated with something that the company want them to display on their dress code?

    Yes… by leaving/quitting/etc…

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      So that’s a no, then - you don’t have a right for something if you have to leave the system to exercise the right. For example you wouldn’t have the right of freedom of speech if I said “yeah you can say whatever you want if you leave the country!”

      So, why do companies deserve more rights than people?

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So, why do companies deserve more rights than people?

        They don’t… It’s their property. Just like you would have a right to ask someone to leave your property at anytime for any reason.

        • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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          1 year ago

          Okay so imagine that you’re on Elon Musk’s private jet, 36000 feet in the air, and he asks you to strip down into a thong and perform an erotic dance for him. It’s his property, he has the right to tell you what to wear. If you don’t like it, you’re free to leave; of course. Do you think that’s acceptable?

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yes you would have a right to leave at any time. Failure on Elon’s part to allow you off the craft promptly and in safe manner would literally be kidnapping or unlawful detention. Which I believe would be up to 3 years of imprisonment… and generally a felony.

            Also, would probably be soliciting and probably a whole slew of other illegal actions here if that situation would occur.

            Did you think you had a gotcha there?