Shut Up and Work! Vanderbilt Professor Examines Erosion of Free Expression in the Workplace.
AScribe Law News Service, May, 2007
Byline: Vanderbilt University
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- An employee is fired for having a political bumper sticker on his car. Another is let go for complaining about co-workers on a MySpace page. A third person didn't receive a call-back on a prospective job because of the sermon he gave on his church's podcast. Are these violations of free speech? Are private companies breaking the law by firing or not hiring these people?
Bruce Barry, professor of sociology at Vanderbilt and professor of management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, said though these examples may sound farfetched, they're not. Barry said the United States legal system gives employers wide latitude to suppress worker speech, even when it has...
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