Target rehires ND woman after backlash over her termination for ‘dress code issue’ — she wrote ‘trust in Jesus’ on her nametag

Denise Kendrick, who is an employee at Target at its Fargo, North Dakota location, said that on November 16 she was fired over a "dress code issue" after she said she would not take her name tag off where she had written "Trust in Jesus" with a cross, per WTOV.

Kendrick said that she was instructed not to wear the name tag at her place of work by a manager. She replied, "Well, I've seen people with rainbows on theirs. I'm going to continue to wear this name tag." When she refused, Kendrick said she was fired for the offense. When the woman asked supervisors for the reason for the firing in writing, they refused to do so.

"They gave me this paper with all these phone numbers on it and said, 'If you have any questions about the violation of the dress code, just call one of these numbers.' And he just kept repeating it, and we just kept going back and forth, and it was going nowhere," Kendrick said at the time, per the Daily Mail.

After the event caught steam on social media, a Target spokesman told reporters, “Upon learning of this situation, we conducted a review and determined that the team member should not have been terminated." The spokesman added, “We apologized to her, offered to reinstate her immediately, and are pleased that she is back working in our store."

The controversy has drawn a lot of backlash against Target, which has been seen as a more left-wing store brand in recent years, as it has made "tuck-friendly" swimsuits available for trans-identified males.

One user on social media wrote, "I don't shop at Target! I hope that lady sues Target for wrongful termination! I am so sick of the intolerant left! They are all so wretched," per the Mail's report. Another user said, "You'd think Target would allow their employees to express themselves. At least that's what they are giving off, but apparently not."