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Trader Joe s rehired an employee who said he was fired after asking for more COVID-19 protections.
Bonnema s letter to the CEO was shared widely on Twitter and inspired a boycott.
Retail workers tasked with enforcing mask rules have risked dangerous confrontations in the last year.
Trader Joe s on Wednesday rehired an employee who said he was fired in February after requesting increased COVID-19 safety protections in a letter to the company s CEO, The Daily Beast first reported.
Ben Bonnema s account of his firing from a New York City Trader Joe s store led to calls for a boycott of the grocer s more than 500 US locations. Scientists cited in Bonnema s letter also came to his defense as news of his firing made waves online.
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