Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by throwawaysea on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:54AM
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But these two were not speaking about the “terms and conditions” of their employment. They were broadly criticizing the company on other matters ranging from climate change to more directly political issues. I feel like the scope of the NLRA is extending to include just about everything.
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by rtkwe on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:31PM
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You've got it backwards the law allows companies certain things they can forbid people from doing not an explicit list of things employees are allowed to say [0]. Companies can only prevent employees from speaking about specific things like trade secrets or other confidential things.
[0] This would have some pretty obvious 1A implications.
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by burnished on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:21PM
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What? It sounds like you are implying that you need your employers permission to speak your mind, broadly, on any topic?
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by throwawaysea on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:53PM
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I'm not necessarily saying that's how it should be, but I am observing that this is how it is in practice. Otherwise what do you make of companies regularly firing people for saying something on social media or on their own time? For example Disney+ fired Gina Carano for holding certain political positions and expressing them online. It seems like left-leaning activists want it both ways - protection for their own activities but not for the activities of moderates or conservatives.
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by burnished on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:08AM
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'protection for moderates or conservative' I see this opined frequently, but what specific views are in need of protection here? Real question because it usually seems like a smoke screen for troubling or racist views.
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by rideontime on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:27PM
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> I feel like the scope of the NLRA is extending to include just about everything.
You say this like it's a bad thing.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/can-you-terminate-emplo...
> In a memo released on April 15, the agency evaluated a case where a company maintained a policy that prohibited employees from speaking to the media at any time. The NLRB found this rule to be unlawful and explained: “Employees have a statutory right to speak publically about their complaints or concerns with their terms and conditions of employment, including to the press, without employer authorization.”
> In other words, employees have a right under the National Labor Relations Act generally to discuss their employment – including with the press. Based on the finding that the policy was unlawful, the NLRB also found that the company violated labor law when it terminated two employees pursuant to the policy for speaking to the media about a workplace issue. A more narrowly tailored policy may have passed muster, but the broad media prohibition, in this case, crossed the line.