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AFAIK, political speech is not protected against employer discrimination.
by thereare5lights 7y ago
AFAIK, political speech is not protected against employer discrimination.
- goobynight 7y agoIf it isn't explicitly not protected though, there could still be a fun case to deal with.
- bilbo0s 7y agoFor precision's sake, it should be pointed out that it is explicitly not protected in a lot of cases. This is due to the fact that a lot of people sign papers that they never read when they start at many corporations. The correct play here, is to get the word out that people need to review every single paper they sign and line out the clauses that allow dismissal for bringing yourself or the company into public disrepute. People have to understand that they shouldn't be just signing away their rights like that. The ACLU can't protect you if you've signed these kinds of contracts.
- dfhfkslhhj 7y agoIt would be good if it were though. If employers were unable to do anything about an employee's political speech, then China would face the choice between isolating itself economically, or tolerating criticism.
- LocalH 7y agoThat's honestly part of the problem. Increasingly, every single right that we have that was enumerated in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been encroached upon by the government via workarounds and loopholes (see: Commerce Clause).
- willis936 7y agoIf it’s such an issue then surely a larger federal government is the solution.
- claudeganon 7y agoGovernment encroachment of these rights has always been a problem, but the real issue is that America tries to nurture two systems within itself: a liberal, democratic government with correspondingly enshrined rights and an economy arranged around authoritarian hierarchies with no such protections. While it’s all well and good to prevent the government from quashing speech and other rights, when your boss can fire you for saying something they disagree with or if you refuse things like workplace surveillance (potentially costing you your housing and healthcare in the process), these protections seem pretty threadbare. I think we need to do more to check the authoritarianism of our economy if we have any real aspiration to adhere to them.
- hprotagonist 7y agoI'm pretty sure that this is going to get you sued into oblivion: 1. I work for private company X. 2. X tells me to vote for Y, says that Y is awesome, supports Y, donates to Y. (pick any of these) 3. I campaign for and vote for Z. 4. I am fired because i voted for Z. Any outcome in which X is not crushed into little pieces is so incredibly far off the deep end from what the values of who we are as a country are that it's frankly inconceivable to me. If the free expression of political speech is so crabbed and constrained that the above is ok, or legal, or both, then we're fucked.
- thereare5lights 7y agoMy point is that I am not aware of any legislation (at least on the federal level) that is widely accepted to protect political speech even in the example you bring up. Many people assume that gay and transgendered people are protected from employer discrimination but that is also currently being adjudicated.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoI want to agree with you here, but I fear that this reality is closer than we expect, perhaps less than a generation away.... it starts with citizens untied, and it means we’re already fucked, just not completely, not yet.