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There's a lot of nuance as usual. Firing you over provably true statements or things you said strictly as a private individual can have harsher consequences for
by makeitdouble 4y ago
There's a lot of nuance as usual. Firing you over provably true statements or things you said strictly as a private individual can have harsher consequences for the company (you can be let go but they'd need to pay a pretty heavy severance)
I am not a lawyer, but I'd expect you'd need to be revealing company secrets, or have a public speaking position in the first place (e.g. you work for PR) and your declarations make you unfit for the job, or leave proofs that your goal was to damage the company, to be in a position as weak as in the US.
imagine otherwise how tough it would be to do political or ideological activism on your private time.
- refurb 4y agoUse the example in the article. You basically write a letter to your fellow employees saying (I’ll paraphrase) “im outta here because the talents and ideas that made this place successful are gone”. Can you do that in Europe and face no consequences?
- somewhereoutth 4y agoMore precisely, in Europe firing someone has consequences for the company. So they would need rather more motivation to do that than an artfully worded leaving email.
- makeitdouble 4y agoThe exact phrasing: > "He was fond of a line from the Persian poet Rumi, who said, “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Playing off that line, Chaudhri wrote, “Sadly, rivers dry out, and when they do, you look for a new one." No, an employer wouldn't be in a great position firing an employee about a reflexion on a poem, that was used to explain his motivation drying out. To be clear, the employer would face the consequences.