Facebook Rant Not Enough To Fire Worker, 2nd Circ. Says

By Vin Gurrieri (April 21, 2017, 5:35 PM EDT) -- A catering company was wrong to fire an employee for posting a profanity-laced message on Facebook that insulted both a manager and his mother and urged colleagues to vote in favor of unionization, the Second Circuit ruled Friday, but it cautioned that the clearly obscene post lies at the outer limit of acceptability for protected union speech....

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