They're not being targeted for speaking out against climate change, they're being targeted for publicly criticizing their employer. The context of climate change here is irrelevant, they'd have gotten that HR call for literally any other public criticism.
Of course it's against communication policy to publicly bad-mouth your employer. Amazon is being fair and reasonable by giving them a warning before actually firing them. As an employee, if you have concerns about the company, you keep it in-house. If those
This is the way capitalism is done in the US, but not every country does it the same way. In Nordic countries workers are considered to have more rights than they do in the US.
Anyhow, perhaps someone from that area could comment on how employees who criticize their employers are treated. Here in the US they can be terminated, unless you can show that the employee was being discriminated against (e.g. if the treatment of black employees who do this differs from the treatment of white employees).
In Nordic countries workers are considered to have more rights than they do in the US.
Yes, we do. A lot more, in fact. Which is very good.
That said...
Anyhow, perhaps someone from that area could comment on how employees who criticize their employers are treated.
Similarly.
I can criticize my employer as much as I want, or feel I need to, in any forum, as a private citizen.
I can not do it while simultaneously stating that I am in fact an employee of said company, without breaking my agreement/contract with the company.
Plus, it is just rude and bad form to do so.
Here in the US they can be terminated, unless you can show that the employee was being discriminated against (e.g. if the treatment of black employees who do this differs from the treatment of white employees).
Similar here, although it would require a stringent process to be undertaken, actually proving damage to the company and such. But yes, if I do s
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
got to be a better way.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
You mean, "for publicly criticizing the company" (Score:5, Informative)
They're not being targeted for speaking out against climate change, they're being targeted for publicly criticizing their employer. The context of climate change here is irrelevant, they'd have gotten that HR call for literally any other public criticism.
Of course it's against communication policy to publicly bad-mouth your employer. Amazon is being fair and reasonable by giving them a warning before actually firing them. As an employee, if you have concerns about the company, you keep it in-house. If those
Re:You mean, "for publicly criticizing the company (Score:2)
This is the way capitalism is done in the US, but not every country does it the same way. In Nordic countries workers are considered to have more rights than they do in the US.
Anyhow, perhaps someone from that area could comment on how employees who criticize their employers are treated. Here in the US they can be terminated, unless you can show that the employee was being discriminated against (e.g. if the treatment of black employees who do this differs from the treatment of white employees).
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In Nordic countries workers are considered to have more rights than they do in the US.
Yes, we do. A lot more, in fact. Which is very good.
That said...
Anyhow, perhaps someone from that area could comment on how employees who criticize their employers are treated.
Similarly.
I can criticize my employer as much as I want, or feel I need to, in any forum, as a private citizen.
I can not do it while simultaneously stating that I am in fact an employee of said company, without breaking my agreement/contract with the company.
Plus, it is just rude and bad form to do so.
Here in the US they can be terminated, unless you can show that the employee was being discriminated against (e.g. if the treatment of black employees who do this differs from the treatment of white employees).
Similar here, although it would require a stringent process to be undertaken, actually proving damage to the company and such. But yes, if I do s