Second, the employee’s speech had a detrimental impact on the close working relationships within the office. The employee exhibited no concern for her colleague’s feelings, called them hypocrites, and refused to apologize in her disciplinary hearing. In addition, the Court also considered that the employee failed to acknowledge any wrongdoing or show remorse.
As a result of the employee’s post, the employer conducted additional diversity training and brought counselors into the office to meet with employees. Upon review, the Court held that the employer’s “interest in maintaining an effective workplace with employee harmony that services the public efficiently outweighs interest in incidentally using racially offensive language in a Facebook comment.” The Court reached this conclusion based upon several factors.įirst, the employee’s speech disrupted the harmony of the office. The employee subsequently sued, claiming the government violated her First Amendment rights. Ultimately, the employer discharged the employee for violating three rules: 1) her behavior reflected discredit upon the employer 2) her conduct was unbecoming of a Nashville employee and 3) her Facebook profile disclosed that she was a Nashville employee, but failed to include a disclaimer that her views were hers alone and not those of her employer. However, by that point, the employer had received numerous complaints and initiated an investigation. The employee subsequently removed the post within 16 hours. In particular, the employee (a white Nashville emergency dispatcher) made a Facebook post related to President Trump’s victory following the 2016 election that included racial slurs. Recently, one federal court of appeals validated an employer’s decision to discharge an employee for posting a racially charged political statement on social media. on weekends.Reposted from the Labor & Employment Law Navigator Blog - Click Here to Subscribe Wednesday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Native Gardens runs from September 27 to October 20 at 7:30 p.m. The Gloucester Stage show is directed by Kelly Galvin in her GSC directing debut.Īnd she is also part of an all-female creative team that covers everything from lighting to sound to costumes and props.Īlaina Fragoso makes her Gloucester Stage debut as Tania Del Valle while Patrick Shea returns to Gloucester after 26 years to play the role of Frank Butley.Įduardo Ruiz is a Puerto Rican actor making his GSC debut as Pablo Del Valle. Also making a debut in Gloucester is North Shore native Leigh Strimbeck, who plays Virginia Butley. “Although this one-act tackles weighty historical issues with a broad, sitcom-style approach that owes more to I Love Lucy than Hamilton, the creative team has seeded it with so many jokes and insights that it’s easily this summer’s comedy winner,” it said. But in this case, it is a gift,” it added. That won’t suit the rabble-rousers in the crowd.
“She has a knack for wading into complex social issues without making us uncomfortable. Playwright Karen Zacarías “dances her way through all this nastiness very gingerly, filling the script with light banter and laugh lines worthy of an Emmy-winning sitcom,” said.
They move in beside “community stalwarts Virginia and Frank Butley,” who refer to their new neighbors as “the Mexicans.”īut “soon a disagreement between the neighbors over a longstanding fence line derails their plans of realizing the American dream.” Tania is a heavily pregnant doctoral candidate, while husband Pablo is a high-powered lawyer.
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