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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by netfire on Friday January 03, 2014 @09:54AM (#7005673)
Can you provide a source for this? I've never heard of this before and am curious what legal restriction you are referring to.
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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by SamReidHughes on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:00AM (#7005698)
It's in a secret section of the constitution on employment law, that overrides the first amendment.
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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by BlackDeath3 on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:10PM (#7006555)
The first amendment (and all the rest of it) has nothing to do with non-governmental, private interactions.
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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by gottagetmac on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:34PM (#7006721)
Of course it does, when you're talking about the government regulating non-governmental, private speech, such as this mythical law against employers saying truthfully that you were fired for cause.
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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by BlackDeath3 on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:49PM (#7006807)
Fair point. I suppose I'm really not sure.
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Re:Fired? Speak No Evil by ceejayoz on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:10PM (#7006967)
That's why companies are free to have this as a company policy.

The First Amendment prevents this policy from being a law.

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