Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB

wjousts writes "American Medical Response of Connecticut had a policy that barred employees from depicting the company 'in any way' on Facebook or other social media. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that this policy runs afoul of the National Labor Relations Act, which gives employees the right to form unions and prohibits employers from punishing workers for discussing working conditions."

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FP

[Anonymous Coward]

Work on facebook with my c0ck

Re:Oh look

[sakdoctor]

To be fair, this is one of the better days. Facebook is only on the front page twice.
This story, and once annoyingly name dropped in the Wi-Fi Encryption story where it has NO relevance.

It's my hope that people will soon STFU about facebook. It's just a propitiatory communication platform, in a long line of them, after all.

Re:US Employment Rights

[vlm]

No holiday time, no sick leave, no maternity leave, no restrictions on hours worked, no mandated breaks, few health and safety regulations, can be fired without notice or reason, can legally discriminate, etc. It is like working in the third world. Between this and health care the US is low on my list of places I wish to work.

Spoken like someone who's never worked in the US.

You missed the most important part of his post:

Between this and health care the US is low on my list of places I wish to work.

This IS how illegals are treated in the US. Second hand knowledge, relatives in the fast food industry and electronic assembly industry (some is still done in the US not China, just not done by US citizens). Citizens get much better treatment, assuming their job hasn't been replaced with illegals. I'm told H1Bs "unofficially" get the same treatment, but I only have hearsay on that.

At-Will

[airos4]

I'm at an organization where a similar situation is proceeding through the HR hell.
The unfortunate part is that as an at-will employee, which we all basically are at my job, they have to do something highly illegal to actually get sued for firing you. You can show up and pick your nose and get fired for it, and it's just "at will."...

Now, if they actually said "Because of this" you might have a better case, because then they're stepping on first amendment stuff. But if they said "Because we want to" you'd be SOL. People don't get that your first amendment rights protect you from jail time, not protect you from any consequence at all.