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Why not? Is everyone that works for the government supposed to hold exactly the same opinions and political leanings? If a staffer in a Republican area of the U
by briHass 5y ago
Why not? Is everyone that works for the government supposed to hold exactly the same opinions and political leanings? If a staffer in a Republican area of the US donated to BLM and was fired, would there be a different reaction?
- MattGaiser 5y agoShe doesn't work for the government, but rather is a political staffer of the government of the day. So imagine that the communications director to the Lieutenant Governor of a GOP state donated to BLM.
- mbfg 5y agoi would certainly expect your scenario to play out as you stated.
- pjc50 5y agoSome organisations are simply illegal to give money to; this has long been a "War On Terror" thing. It is not clear whether that actual process applied here or whether this is just private action.
- zuminator 5y agoCertainly in the US if you are an at-will private employee you can be terminated for any reason or no reason at all, except for explicitly protected classes. Political affiliation is not a protected class, at least not on a Federal level, although a few states have varying degrees of protection [0] that may have protected this staffer. As for government employees, the situation is more complicated. If you are a low-level government employee, your political affiliation is not valid grounds for being terminated. However, employees who are considered as placed in "policymaking" [1] roles, which would include being an "adviser" [1] of some sort, would be able to be terminated according to US standards. [0] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/politics-at-work.aspx https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/... [1] Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976). Also see Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois, 497 U.S. 62 (1990).