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Exactly. A person can mouth off all the racist nonsense he wants, but his company can still fire him for it, I don't have to listen to it, and I can call him a racist for it.
Freedom of speech does not protect you from consequences or guarantee you an audience.
In every place I've worked, the company handbook has pointed out that at all times, inside and outside work, I am representing the workplace and its values, or a variation of the same.
While the government can't make any laws restricting free speech, an employer seems to be fully able to do so under the pretext that they pay you.
However, that pay is for time worked, not time spent outside the workplace. One could argue that most people can afford the lives they lead outside the workplace because of the pay they receive by the workplace and by that token have essentially become slaves of the employer.
On the other hand, if I am "representing" the workplace even outside of working hours, I essentially become some form of "ambassador" for that particular employer, therefore, shouldn't I charge the employer every time I am asked where I work and what my job is?
The workplace says they can control what I wear and what I say when I am in workplace property. However, outside of it, I am my own person, I think my own thoughts and chose to act/not act accordingly.
Yet, people get punished for exercising their constitutional protected right. Roseanne Bar won't go hungry any time soon, but the 200+ employees of the show may. While I am not trying to protect what she said, she does have the right to say whatever she wants. As for the employees, it was the network who fired them.
In every place I've worked, the company handbook has pointed out that at all times, inside and outside work, I am representing the workplace and its values, or a variation of the same.
While the government can't make any laws restricting free speech, an employer seems to be fully able to do so under the pretext that they pay you.
However, that pay is for time worked, not time spent outside the workplace. One could argue that most people can afford the lives they lead outside the workplace because of the pay they receive by the workplace and by that token have essentially become slaves of the employer.
On the other hand, if I am "representing" the workplace even outside of working hours, I essentially become some form of "ambassador" for that particular employer, therefore, shouldn't I charge the employer every time I am asked where I work and what my job is?
The workplace says they can control what I wear and what I say when I am in workplace property. However, outside of it, I am my own person, I think my own thoughts and chose to act/not act accordingly.
Yet, people get punished for exercising their constitutional protected right. Roseanne Bar won't go hungry any time soon, but the 200+ employees of the show may. While I am not trying to protect what she said, she does have the right to say whatever she wants. As for the employees, it was the network who fired them.
Rosanne very likely had a 'moral turpitude' clause in her contract that permitted her firing. The situation varies from one job to another, depending on written company policy and contract. IMO most people could not have be fired for what she did, since it was off the job. But anyone at her level is going to have a written contract and a MT clause.
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post there my friend.
