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A Tennessee man who claims he was fired from his job over tweets made in California can sue that person in Tennessee

I want to thank my co-presenters, Amy Epstein Gluck, Jonathan Segal, Gregory Slotnick, and everyone who attended the Zoom on Friday, November 10, 2023, when we discussed antisemitism and the workplace. We recorded it, and you can view it here on YouTube. One of the topics we covered was employees getting…

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On Instagram, an ER doctor said Israelis got “a taste of their own medicine.” CORRECTION: Former ER doctor.

A doctor whose job is to administer potentially life-saving medicine to patients, among them Jews, was reportedly fired after celebrating the massacre of Israelis by the Islamist terror group Hamas. Here’s more from the NY Post: An emergency room physician …shared a video of the heinous Oct. 7 attack on her…

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Talent acquisition specialist fired after video surfaces of her xenophobic rant on a train

According to reports, a pharmaceutical company fired one of its senior talent acquisition specialists last week after she appeared in a viral video on a New Jersey Transit train calling a small group of German men “f—ing immigrants and telling them to “get the f— out of our country.” An…

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Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills for employees “unfairly treated” for posting or liking on the platform

Screenshot: @elonmusk on X At least that’s what Elon Musk, the billionaire who purchased X (formerly known as Twitter), posted from his X account on Saturday night. He also vowed that there is “no limit” to the funding. Neither Musk nor X has provided further details on the offer, such…

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A step-by-step guide on how to go from semi-pro hockey player to unemployed in just a few tweets.

It’s 2023. When are employees going to learn that while the First Amendment does guarantee freedom of speech, there is no constitutional right to a job, and employers don’t have to tolerate employee hate speech? Our recent addition to the unemployment line is a semi-professional hockey player in Illinois. He…

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Fired an employee for violating a social media policy, did you? You may have to pay their credit card debt and mortgage payments.

On Friday’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour — catch the replay here if you missed it —  we talked about 2022 changes in the law that could impact 2023 updates to your employee handbook. One talked briefly about how the pendulum at the National Labor Relations…

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Hey, they never said we couldn’t post TikToks transporting the dead bodies

Well, that’s not exactly what your employees should think if you operate a mortuary transport service. But, Fox5 in Las Vegas ran this story about a mortuary transporter who was recording the transport of dead bodies to several funeral homes and crematories throughout the Las Vegas valley and then posting…

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What should we say to our employees about Roe v. Wade?

Over the weekend, I read this Reddit post. It’s from an individual who says the company will require employees to attend a pro-life celebration today following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Many of the 1,300 comments focus on the wage-and-hour implications of…

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Healthcare CEO gets fired after viral TikTok video altercation with a boy in a red dress, sues Kathy Griffin.

I’ll take “blog post titles that I never thought I’d be using in 2022 ever” for $500. On this blog, I’ve often said that employees may have freedom of speech on social media. But their actions can have consequences at work because there is no corresponding constitutional right to a…

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Read this before you go ham on employees who badmouth your company online.

I’m not sure if we are still in the middle of the “Great Resignation,” the “Great Renegotiation,” or something else entirely. I am sure, however, that I could go for a great piece of coconut cream pie right now. Additionally, I know that among life’s certainties are death, taxes, and employees…