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 Westpac Banking Corp agreed to pay A$113 million ($80.6 million) in penalties after the Australian regulator alleged the lender had widespread compliance failures that included charging dead people. The case includes a claim that Westpac charged more than A$10 million ($7.01 million) in fees for financial advice to over 11,000 deceased customers over a 10-year period, according to a …