Doubtless a real lawyer will come along here and clarify, but a good shorthand is: you can be fired in virtually any state in the union for expressing political opinions.
Doubtless a real lawyer will come along here and clarify, but a good shorthand is: you can be fired in virtually any state in the union for expressing political opinions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google...
> First, federal labor law bars even non-union employers like Google from punishing an employee for communicating with fellow employees about improving working conditions.
> Second... California law prohibits employers from threatening to fire employees to get them to adopt or refrain from adopting a particular political course of action.
> Third, the engineer complained in parts of his memo about company policies that he believes violate employment discrimination laws... It is unlawful for an employer to discipline an employee for challenging conduct that the employee reasonably believed to be discriminatory, even when a court later determines the conduct was not actually prohibited by the discrimination laws.
I don't see it getting to litigation though. I'd be shocked if Google didn't offer him a fairly hefty severance payment in return for a release of all legal claims.
EDIT: Maybe don't listen to any of my predictions m'kay.
https://twitter.com/daiwaka/status/894747912701263873
(tweet author is a NYTimes Journalist who covers Google)
Source: reviewed many regulatory actuarial filings, which are public record - mine were in Alaska but you might find the same by trawling thru https://fortress.wa.gov/oic/onlinefilingsearch/ or http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0800-rate-filings/