Could Participating In Activism At Work Get You Fired?

In April, Google fired 50 staffers after protests over its contracts with Israel. As employers worry that campus activism could spread to the workplace, Forbes spoke with legal experts about the protections employees have-and don’t have-when it comes to speaking out at work.
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[@satiricgames2129]

So perhaps do some research on the job you apply for if you're so convinced that you have the right to bark orders at the people that hire you

[@AsianThunder22]

Ik right🤣 Same type of people that think they have freedom of speech in schools and the same rights. READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS🤣🤣

[@skghtufir]

If you dont like the company you are welcome to leave no point protesting.

[@well-blazeredman6187]

I'm with Google on this.

[@CooperJeanne]

If it doesn't get you fired, then it should! Activism has no place in the work place

[@markcostanzo]

Right. Ask Edward Snowden.

[@MX304]

It absolutely can.The company I work for specifically forbids any protests on company property, falsely using sick time to attend any protests etc. It is also grounds for immediate termination if you are seen in any video that shows you participating in any form of violence at a protest.

[@AmorosoGombe]

It's time to call separation of work and politics. Keep politics out of work and vice versa.

[@AsianThunder22]

Could not working at a work place get you fired??🤣 Activism on your free time shouldn’t but dude…. You have a job and responsibilities when you’re an employee??🤣

[@Lirree88]

Flawed headline. Supporting designated te r ror org may indeed get you fired and come with far reaching consequences.

[@ivar1998]

Because corporations don't care about people and have no integrity, their main priority and perogative is to make money and make shareholders happy, regardless of the moral and ethical implications of how they go about it.

[@AsianThunder22]

Business is business. You’re thinking in how the world SHOULD run and not how it DOES run. Stand up lead the charge to change it!

[@MidNightRider2001]

"Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, sh + like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional."--George Carlin

[@rileyjoseph3488]

Democrat, republican, it doesn’t matter. You have the right to use your voice at any time in your life. At work, at home, in the streets. Anywhere. Speak up. Fight for what you believe in, even if others don’t. Regardless of if you’re “right” you’re showing people how this situation makes you feel.

[@sarahrean7174]

That's change NOTHING american or European things screaming putting flags on Instagram going to change something 🙄.

[@dkaoboy]

take your Social Justice BS and head to the unemployment line.