Keith Nuttle wrote in news:kch52c$qpj$1
@speranza.aioe.org:

On 1/8/2013 7:07 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
-MIKE- wrote in news:kcg3td$gmh$1
@speranza.aioe.org:

It's so funny to see employers try to word their bull**** with legalize
to try to make sound all official and legal. A lot of it is not. An
"extension of the workplace?" What complete bull****. They can say what
they want, it doesn't make it legal and it's doesn't supersede your 1st
amendment rights.

The First Amendment constrains the government, not the private sector, and it is *not* a
violation of the employee's First Amendment rights for a *private* employer to muzzle (or
attempt to) the employee's speech, whether in or out of the workplace.

I believe the employer has the Right to terminate an employee if the
employer believes that the employee has done something to harm the
company. I believe it would be up to the court to decide if the
specific action harmed the company.

That may depend on state law and any employment contracts that may exist (e.g. a union
agreement).

My guess is that if an employee was distributing anything, papers,
video, phone calls, or internet post that cast the company in a negative
image he should consider himself a candidate for termination.

Of course. And that is as it should be.

UNLESS he can frame it to make it appear he is a whistle blower and
there are laws to protect him. Though you are back in court.