EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; DEFENSES – Business Necessity

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Contrary to an employer’s stated safety concerns—banning stickers is necessary to prevent damage to employee hardhats—it failed to produce any evidence that the ban was necessary to prevent hardhat damage. Lack of evidence that the employer conducted any regular inspection of the hardhats for damage undermined those concerns. It also allowed employees to affix other items to their hardhats with adhesive materials without any explanation regarding those materials’ effect on the hardhats. (pp. 12-14.)