Bloomberg Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market illegally banned employees from wearing “Black Lives Matter” masks and punished workers who did, US labour board prosecutors alleged. The grocery store chain maintained appearance rules at US locations to prohibit staff from displaying Black Lives Matter messages on their apparel, the National Labor Relations Board’s San Francisco regional director said. The filing also accuses ...

Bloomberg Hermes International is set to join one of Europe’s main equity benchmarks, an inclusion that will further bolster the French luxury company’s visibility among investors. Hermes, the maker of Kelly and Birkin handbags will replace Universal Music Group NV in the Euro Stoxx 50, index operator Qontigo said in a statement. The change will be effective as of December ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said he anticipated a “long discussion” with Vladimir Putin over the threat of an invasion of Ukraine, and dismissed the Russian leader’s warning that deployment of Western weapons or troops represented a “red line.” “We’ve been aware of Russia’s actions for a long time and my expectation is we’re going to have a long discussion with ...