Workers Need Rights Protected

The court of public opinion violates freedoms.

The creation of the internet and social media has brought forth a problem that workers need protection from.

For quite some time now, workers have been faced with losing jobs, or financial attacks based upon some behavior that the person has the Constitutional right to perform.

A worker, on their own time with their own services, will do something or say something, that will lead to protest and cause an employer to fire them. Despite the fact that the person has the right to say or perform the act.

Whether it’s a teacher fired from a job, because she has an Onlyfans page. Or a man who posts a picture taken years ago. Or a person goes on a drunken tirade that gets videotaped and posted online. We have seen these things blow up time and time again. Then, the person is fired.

The problem is that we violate people’s rights by circumventing the Constitution and using business as a means to impose totalitarian rules. You might have the right to do a thing. But, you’ll be broke if you do.

In this age of the internet and social media, things can be blown out of proportion, and exist forever. So, not only does the person lose the current job, but it impacts them ever getting a job in the future. Over something they have the right to do.

Is this setting up a future social credit system, where you are punished financially for any violation? Banks can take your money? Your employer fines you or fires you because you said something off duty at a picnic? How far will this go? Will you be fired for refusing to be searched? Will you be fired for owning a gun? Will you be fired for refusing medical procedures or violating your employers religious beliefs? Where does it end?

Folks claim that employers have the right to fire employees at will. That should be changed. An employer should not be able to violate rights and freedoms of an employee.

Currently an employer doesn’t have to give a reason to justify firing or simply says the behavior is not inline with the values of the company, or that the behavior could damage the company financially or in some other way. Then they can fire the worker.

The company should be required to prove actual harm, not just a possible harm. The company should be required to prove that ALL the other the employees are living a perfect life inline with the values the company claims to possess. Equal justice under the law.

Did the company fire the manager who cheated on his wife last week? Equal justice under the law. Or do those values only apply when a person is caught on tape and it’s played online? Maybe owners should be fined when they violate the companies values on their own time also?

Currently in America there is a complaint that people do not want to work anymore. Perhaps that problem could be solved by giving workers more protections against employers. Why would anyone want to work for low pay and low benefits, while being treated unfairly, and being afraid of getting fired for things they have the right to do.

Workers need protection, or big business will become big brother.

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