Re:Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US ...
by whimsicalism on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:53PM
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> broadcast a non-security related message.
I don't think it was broadcast, it was displayed if one particular website was visited. That seems very analogous to permitted organizing activities such as using your employers email system to organize or posting on a cork board.
> they baked an unnecessary ignored message into the encoded stream (about whatever) there should be repercussions for lack of good judgement.
Would you be fired? I'm not so sure. It is pretty obvious that this firing was not unrelated to the messaging.
I'm glad that the very conservative interpretation of labor law that most on HN seem to believe is not the reality of labor law in the US, although more should still be done.
I don't think it was broadcast, it was displayed if one particular website was visited. That seems very analogous to permitted organizing activities such as using your employers email system to organize or posting on a cork board.
> they baked an unnecessary ignored message into the encoded stream (about whatever) there should be repercussions for lack of good judgement.
Would you be fired? I'm not so sure. It is pretty obvious that this firing was not unrelated to the messaging.
I'm glad that the very conservative interpretation of labor law that most on HN seem to believe is not the reality of labor law in the US, although more should still be done.