No Free Speech?

Don't stand on a podium and broadcast criticism. I doubt if an NDA was signed but there must be a balance between personal opinions and broadcasting a critical opinion formed largely from your position as an insider. It seems a slippery slop for any arbitrator to resolve.
 
I just skimmed the article, but in general free speech only prevents the government from prosecuting you. It doesn't protect you from any other consequences, like getting fired from your job.
That said, this particular firing seems like a stretch, so he probably has a case for wrongful termination.
 
Flatulent Fox said:
I just skimmed the article, but in general free speech only prevents the government from prosecuting you. It doesn't protect you from any other consequences, like getting fired from your job.
That said, this particular firing seems like a stretch, so he probably has a case for wrongful termination.
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Wonder if it makes any difference whether the employer is a government entity or a private sector entity? I have heard that an employer can fire you without cause but will have to offer you suitable compensation.
 
Any employer has a right to a certain amount of loyalty from their employees, exactly how much and in what circumstances is debatable (and often is, all the way to the Courts). But senior employees and managers — as it sounds like this guy is — working in public services such as transit have always been required by precedent, contract and even statute to share their opinions only with their bosses and keep them out of open politics.

Essentially: When the masters you serve are politicians, you pick your job, or you pick your public politics, but you cannot have both. Otherwise we'll be back to old-fashioned patronage with everyone fired and replaced by fawning toadies whenever a new pol is elected. Anti-management post on his blog while working in middle-management at GM would likely have had him fired as well. He was just deluded into thinking everyone can express political opinions.
 
As long as he got a fair severance the employer was well within their rights to terminate him.
 
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