“The 14 workers in four states say staffers were sent home without pay, formally disciplined or even fired for donning the masks”
GOOD! Welcome to reality. You serve at the pleasure of your employer not the other way around...having said that I fully expect whole foods to cave any minute.
They should simply have been fired.
Sounds like a planned law suit because they wanted money. I expect there to be many more someone put them up to it thinking it was a good idea.