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Joe Raedle/Getty Images 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 Trad...

A Trader Joe’s worker says he was fired after writing to the CEO about Covid-19 safety protections A Trader Joe’s worker says he was fired after writing directly to the chain’s CEO calling for stronger Covid-19 safety protocols in his store. Ben Bonnema, a Trader Joe’s employee at a store in New York City, wrote an email to Trader Joe’s chief executive Dan Bane on February 26 urging the store to improve its air filtration, not allow anyone inside the store without a mask and adopt a “3 strikes” policy for removing uncooperative customers. “We put our lives on the line everyday...

Trader Joe's said they "have never, and would never, terminate a Crew Member's employment for raising safety concerns"

Trader Joe's employee called for stronger coronavirus measures, then got fired Brittany Shammas and Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Feb. 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Trader Joe's employee appealed directly to the CEO. In a letter citing a medical journal and experts who study respiratory transmission of the coronavirus, Ben Bonnema called on the grocery chain's head, Dan Bane, to adopt more-stringent safety protocols. Among his requests: improving filtration, requiring masks without exception and adopting a "three-strikes" policy for removing uncooperative customers from stores. "We...

After a worker was fired, scientists showed support for his "science-based request" that Trader Joe's take more stringent coronavirus precautions.