Firing in Miami

[Michael Yates]

Unfortunately, in a private workplace, the Constitution does not apply
and a worker can be fired for any reason at all that does not otherwise
violate a statute.  This is called the doctrine of at-will employment.
If the employer is a public entity, such as a public school, the workers
do have some limited constitutional protection.

Michael Yates

Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, hep wrote:
> 
> > Michael Lopez-Calderon, until last week, taught at a Jewish school in
> > Miami.  But after the school received, anonymously, reports that he
> > had made "pro-Palestine" comments on an email list to which he was
> > subscribed, he was fired.
> 
> This has to be illegal, doesn't it?  If explicitly firing someone for
> something they said outside their job -- way outside, such that it has to
> be ferretted out -- isn't a violation of the first amendment, what is?
> Especially when the speech is political.
> 
> Michael
> 
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