RE: Should your opinions outside the workplace get u fired?
January 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2014 at 1:29 pm by Autumnlicious.)
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence.
Your question is loaded, Quill, as it fails to encompass the gradient between professional or uncontroversial statements to vile, depraved or lobbying for unquestionably illegal actions. You're also incredibly unaware of how easy it is to terminate employees for any reason excepting proscribed ones.
Recall that a company has a public image to uphold and a constant demand for more revenue.
Ergo anything that endangers that revenue, including an employee who has attracted public disgust, is at risk of termination/removal.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, specifically disallows several types of dismissals on ground of race, creed, sexuality, etc, if not related to the job at hand. It also disallows refusing to hire on basis of the above except under a few exceptions.
However, at-will and right-to-work employment laws both allow you to fire an employee for any reason as long as it is not in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
You can be terminated for a bad attitude, refusing to bathe or even farting on the CEO.
You cannot be terminated for being Jewish, Black, Gay or even Straight as examples.
So yes, Quill, your question is both loaded and selectively ignorant of the law, which is remarkably unrestrictive towards dismissal of employees.
Your question is loaded, Quill, as it fails to encompass the gradient between professional or uncontroversial statements to vile, depraved or lobbying for unquestionably illegal actions. You're also incredibly unaware of how easy it is to terminate employees for any reason excepting proscribed ones.
Recall that a company has a public image to uphold and a constant demand for more revenue.
Ergo anything that endangers that revenue, including an employee who has attracted public disgust, is at risk of termination/removal.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, specifically disallows several types of dismissals on ground of race, creed, sexuality, etc, if not related to the job at hand. It also disallows refusing to hire on basis of the above except under a few exceptions.
However, at-will and right-to-work employment laws both allow you to fire an employee for any reason as long as it is not in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
You can be terminated for a bad attitude, refusing to bathe or even farting on the CEO.
You cannot be terminated for being Jewish, Black, Gay or even Straight as examples.
So yes, Quill, your question is both loaded and selectively ignorant of the law, which is remarkably unrestrictive towards dismissal of employees.
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