NLRB Judge Rejects Hawaii Clinics’ Dress Policy on Union Logos

A Hawaii hospital chain must rescind portions of its dress code after a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled them to be unlawfully broad.

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Amita Tracy held in a ruling Tuesday that Hawaii Pacific Health maintained dress code rules at five locations statewide that prohibited workers from wearing clothes with logos or insignia in patient areas. This policy prevented unionized staff from wearing union paraphernalia, Tracy found.

The dispute stems from charges filed by the Hawaii Nurses Association, which alleged that the dress codes instituted in 2019 at five clinics on Honolulu, Oahu, and Kauaʻi were ...