The National Labor Relations Board of the United
States (NLRB in its acronym in English), has recognized the right of workers to
express through social networks, their grievances or differences with work or
superiors, according to information that has echoed El Periódico de Cataluña.
From now on forward will not be grounds for dismissal press 'like' on pages
that are not related to the company or share publications manifest personal
discontent about the labor situation. They are already considered a right of
the worker.
The origin
of the story lies in 2011, in Watertown, a town in the State of Connecticut,
when a former employee of a bar, called Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille,
published on his Facebook account a complaint about the working conditions of
the establishment, insulting the Manager. Two employees who worked in the bar
at that time put him to 'like' in the publication. When the company learned
that they had intervened in the commentary dismissed both with the reason of
"lack of loyalty".
The National
Labor Relations Board, last September, gave few days so the company returned to
hire two employees dismissed, since it considers that what they did was to
"discuss a labour problem". This is not the first statement in which
it fails in favor of an employee who has been dismissed for criticizing the
company on Facebook: In 2011 it was forced to reinstate to a worker who had
criticized her directly responsible in this social network. In this case,
Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille has appealed the judgment of the Agency
because no legitimate justification of the same.
CNN has
exposed the case of a lawyer, named Brian Spitz, specializing in employment
issues related to social networks and that calls attention to the complication
that resides in wanting to apply laws of 20, 30 or 50 years ago to a new
generation of technology.
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