Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Employer Free Speech Rights May Pre-empt State Employment Laws
Hadn’t Thought About This, Part CXV: Eugene Volokh, at the always-worth-reading Volokh Conspiracy, discusses an employer’s possible 1st Amendment right to dismiss an employee whose off-job conduct discredits the employer’s core mission, and thus pre-empting any state statute to the contrary. The example under question is the right of Human Rights Watch to fire an […]