Workers Win Right to Wear “Fight for $15” Buttons on Their Uniforms

A fast food restaurant required employees to wear on their uniforms seasonal “Merry Christmas” buttons, as well as pins during April that promoted a charity. These were exceptions to the policy in the employee handbook that banned “pins or stickers.” A federal appeals court said the company would have to make another exception for employees who wanted to wear “Fight for $15” buttons to work unless it could show it had “special circumstances” that made it necessary to ban the pro‐organizing buttons ( In N Out Burger , 894 F.3d 707 NLRB No. 17‐60241 (July 6, 2018)).