United Parcel Service Inc. broke federal labor law by enforcing an overly broad work rule that prevented employees from wearing union insignia on safety vests, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
UPS failed to show a “legitimate business justification” for limiting union logos and buttons on work-approved safety vests, Administrative Law Judge Kimberly Sorg-Graves said in a Monday decision.
Sorg-Graves rejected the company’s arguments that it restricted union logos and messaging on its yellow/green vests for safety reasons, because it failed to prove that obscuring a portion of the vest with insignia “unacceptably diminishes the safety function.”
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