Home Depot forced a worker to quit after he wore a slogan supporting the Black Lives Matter movement on his apron, and it threatened to punish other employees who tried to bring attention to racial harassment, according to a complaint issued by an office of the National Labor Relations Board. The federal agency accused the company of discriminating against the employee, who worked in a Home Depot store in Minneapolis, for wearing the slogan and for talking to other employees and managers at the store about racial harassment there. “Issues of racial harassment directly impact the working conditions of employees,” said Jennifer Hadsall, the regional director of the Minneapolis office of the labor board, which filed the complaint. The National Labor Relations Act “protects employees’ rights to raise these issues with the goal of improving their working conditions,” she said in a statement from the board. “It is this important right we seek to protect in this case.”

Source: New York Times August 17, 2021 20:20 UTC