The case for free speech at work
Posted on AllSides February 28th, 2020
From The Left
Can you really lose your job for posting an opinion on Twitter, or even for clicking “like” on somebody else’s message? Surprising though it may be to employees who expect firms to indulge their odd working hours, their tastes in coffee and their pets, the answer is often yes. Pascal Besselink, an employment lawyer in the Netherlands, reckons that about one in ten abrupt sackings there is connected to behaviour on social media.
Controversial opinions were once expressed in bars after work, and went no further. Today Twitter and other...
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