A judge ruled Friday that a complaint accusing Home Depot of interfering with employees’ rights by barring them from wearing Black Lives Matter messages should be rejected. The adviser to the U.S. National Labor Council had argued that the company was violating federal law by preventing staff from wearing “Black Lives Matter” images on their aprons, which administrative law judge Paul Bogas disagreed with, according to Bloomberg. Bogas wrote that the Black Lives Matter labels did not have “an objective and sufficiently direct relation to the terms and conditions of employment”. Bogas added that the message Black Lives Matter “originated and is mainly used to address the unjustified killings of black people by law enforcement and vigilance.” HOME DEPOT RAISES ANNUAL SALES FORECAST TO STABLE DEMAND Mount Prospect, IL, USA – May 29, 2011: Entrance to The Home Depot home improvement store in Mount Prospect, IL, a Chicago suburb. Plants and chairs for sale are on display in front of the store. (istock / iStock) “To the extent that the message is used for purposes beyond that, it acts as a political umbrella for social concerns and relates to the workplace only in the sense that workplaces are part of society,” Bogas wrote. Judgments issued by the service judges can be appealed to the Democrat-controlled Labor Council in Washington, DC, and transferred to federal court from there. A man demonstrates in favor of Daunte Wright outside Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 21, 2021, during jury hearings at the trial of former police officer Kim Potter. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images) FLYER “WOKE” HOME DEPOT CAUSES INTERNET RISE Home Depot did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The NLRB claimed last year that Home Depot “selectively and disproportionately” imposed the dress code to target Black Lives Matter images. WOOD PRICES WILL REMAIN “MINERS” “The NLRA is protecting the rights of employees to raise these issues in order to improve their working conditions,” NLRB Regional Director Jennifer Hanchal said in a statement at the time. “It’s this important right that we seek to protect in this case.” NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. People are shopping at a Home Depot store on May 19, 2009 in Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images / Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT FOX BUSINESS “Home Depot does not tolerate harassment in the workplace of any kind and takes all allegations of discrimination or harassment seriously, as we did in this case,” Home Depot said last year. “We disagree with the characterization of this situation and look forward to sharing the facts during the NLRB process. Regardless of the outcome, we will continue to be fully committed to diversity and respect for all people.”
