You ever been laid off and offered a severance package?
I was more referring to them putting stuff in about what you can and can't do in your non-work hours, assuming those activites are legal of course.
Nope. Non disclosure agreements effect a bussiness, what you do in your own time doesn't. it's the same as making a person sign a piece of paper saying they won't drink or do over the counter prescriptions, or get an abortion or something.
Drugs are illegal though.
Your company tests for alcohol?
Usually, when you go for a "random" pee test, they give you a breathalyzer test at the same time, just in case you showed up drunk.
Your company tests for alcohol?
Speaking to the press could effect your company, so could sending penis pictures if you are in a high profile position. a normal person doing legal stuff on their own time would have no effect on a bussiness, and they would have a helluva time proving it would. enter discrimination lawsuits.
Your company tests for alcohol?
Speaking to the press could effect your company, so could sending penis pictures if you are in a high profile position. a normal person doing legal stuff on their own time would have no effect on a bussiness, and they would have a helluva time proving it would. enter discrimination lawsuits.
Yes I think this is the key point. If someone is doing something legal in their own time and there's no provable effect on the business or the person's performance at work, a company should not be able to legally enforce that person to act in a certain way. Stating that employees can't drink or smoke on their own time is ludicrous (assuming of course the person doesn't show up blind drunk/hungover every day, but then that would be a case where the negative impact on the business would be pretty obvious).
Fly: yes you're right people can choose to work elsewhere if they don't like the conditions in a contract, my point was however that certain clauses companies put in a contract may not stand up to legal scrutiny so a person shouldn't be forced to look elsewhere...
People have gotten fired for what they posted on Facebook. Even when posted outside of company hours and outside of company property.
People have gotten fired for what they posted on Facebook. Even when posted outside of company hours and outside of company property.
yea, what did they post and how did it negatively effect their company? i'm sure the company was like "OH WE HAVE A NO FACEBOOK POLICY AND HR NOTICED YOU HAD AN ACCOUNT AND COMMENTED ON SOME CHICKS PICTURE ABOUT HOW IT LOOKS LIKE SHE'S HAVING AN AWESOME TIME ON VACATION. YOU'RE FIRED."
What about the NPR guy that just got fired for saying that Muslims on airplanes make him nervous? Is THAT discrimination?
I assume you mean when someone is slagging off their boss/company on there and it's a matter of public record?