>
>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
> >
> >
>__________________________________________________________________________
> > Michael Pollak................New York
>City..............mpollak at panix.com
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