As I See It: How Can You Think That?

October 8, 2018 Victor Rozek

While Congress, by constitutional fiat, may not abridge your right to free speech; your employer can and does. Of necessity, corporations worry about being accused of tolerating or, worse, promoting a hostile work environment. And because harassment laws draw no practical distinctions between sexual innuendo and pornography, or religious advocacy and political endorsement, or insults and threats, or jokes, cartoons, or any other form of expression for that matter, corporations generally wish you’d just shut the hell up.

Legally, corporations are liable for the aggregate of all their employees’ speech.

Even something seemingly benign, if repeated often enough by enough …