Hong Kong: Apple store managers reportedly ban employees from wearing accessories interpreted as showing support for pro-democracy movement
“Apple employees in Hong Kong are being ordered to hide their protest support: Report”, 20 August 2020
Managers at Apple stores in Hong Kong are reportedly banning employees from expressing their support for the city’s pro-democracy movement.
Since early August, staff at Apple stores globally have been wearing lanyards with Memojis—or customizable emoji characters—as part of a way to “help store employees express themselves in a world wearing masks.”
According to activist Joshua Wong, Apple managers in Hong Kong have ordered staff not to decorate their Memojis with yellow or black accessories after some staff personalized theirs in a way that was interpreted as pro-protest support…
It added that managers have even threatened not to renew the contracts of staff as a way to pressure them to change their Memojis.
The employee also said that staff have instructed them not to wear face masks that are yellow or have the word “Hong Kong.”
Coconuts Hong Kong reached out to Apple but has not received a response at the time of writing…
[Also referred to HKmap.live]