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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
It is pretty simple.
You employer tells you not to wear something you don't.
Honestly I am surprised this is such an issue.
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You’d probably be surprised to hear that uniforms/dress codes are actually a very prevalent issue in a lot of workplaces. In this case it really doesn’t help matters that the CPS established a past practice of allowing the officers to wear the pins for a significant period of time even while knowing the public had an issue with it.
I actually think the path the commission is taking right now is probably the safest move from a labour relations and taxpayer perspective, even if it’s not the most popular option in the court of public opinion. I don’t think that upholding a discipline against an officer who violated the original order would have been a slam dunk, and a ruling like that could have made the problem worse in the long run because it would have reinforced the us vs them mentality. Not to mention it would have cost taxpayers a lot of money unnecessarily.