Executives across industries are sending company-wide emails to their employees and releasing public statements expressing outrage over police brutality and acts of anti-Black racism. Never before have so many corporations taken such a public stance, with some CEOs loudly declaring that Black lives matter in statements and media interviews.
The coffee chain, pivoting on a dime, is now producing 250,000 T-shirts with a Black Lives Matter design, and allowing employees to wear their own BLM clothing or attire, while awaiting the branded shirts. It also reported that the gap in median annual wages had increased largely because the wages of Black workers did not grow as quickly as their colleagues. Studies show that racist biases and roadblocks exist not only in law enforcement, but translate into the workplace. Canadian Black employees face much of the same discriminatory pushback as their American counterparts.
The reverse is not true. Hateful and racist rhetoric is not legally permitted in the workplace. Companies can have dress codes, but they cannot be discriminatory, nor enforced in racially discriminatory ways. Employee messages cannot go against employer policies, which are inherently bound to the human rights code and anti-discrimination practices.
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