Actually, for publicly sharing leaked private materials of partner companies, the offer to delete the tweets instead of getting fired was merciful.
Unfortunately people often overlook that they are an ambassador for the company they work for. Their employer will usually not tolerate aggravating a (potential) revenue-generating relationship with a third party by any employee.
I believe Zoom did the right thing here, but I’m curious what CA law says.
It looks like the tweets are gone now anyway.
You can't fire someone just because they posted pictures online only because you don't like them, where I live.
Because your employer have no saying in what you do in your private life.
The most probable outcome if the picture were removed was being fired from Zoom after removing the pictures.
At least now we know about them.
He works in the tech industry, and he posted leaked documents from a tech company. His employer can pretty sanely draw the parallel and say “we don’t want to employ someone who is OK with broadcasting leaked documents from companies like ours”. Even in countries with different levels of worker protections, that’s a pretty clear cause for termination.
You can't be fired for that.
It's against the law.
The leaker is responsible, not the employer posting them.
As it should be in a decent country with decent laws in the west.
We don't live in Vladimir Putin's Russia, do we?
> Even in countries with different levels of worker protections, that’s a pretty clear cause for termination.
actually, it is not.
And if you really wanna try that, you can't do it without a judge saying you could do it.
And if the employer is right, you have to give them the job back and pay all the legal fees.
> You can't be fired for that.
> It's against the law.
Citation needed. In most US states you can be fired for no reason at all.
Here's the quote you're looking for
> that's the difference between countries where workers are protected and where they are not.
> You can't fire someone just because they posted pictures online only because you don't like them, *where I live.*
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30843101
USA is specifically *not* one of those countries.
I somehow doubt it.
I am pretty sure you are mistaken here; there is no law that protects him in this case. The whistleblower protection act only protects federal workers. Other than that California is an at-will state and leaking private information is not a protected class
Not talking about the US here, but, as I've said "countries where workers are protected by the law"
I think you may be confusing authorities here? You can't be prosecuted for merely disseminating trade secrets. It's not illegal.
But your employer can fire you for it. They can fire you for almost any reason they want (exceptions, e.g. for reasons of ethnicity or some other protected class, tend to be spelled out explicitly in legislation). Freedom of association goes both ways. Zoom is under no obligation to continue to pay someone that is hurting the company.
(which I am guessing is Europe and probably Spain, though as the username reads "People from Ibiza" it could be a German or a Brit ;-)
Italy.
Same goes in France, Spain, Germany, Portugal etc etc