Fired for racist Facebook remarks

Dubes said:
The naive thought that two wrongs make a right perhaps? Daily I am exposed to hateful, anti-white sentiments on Twitter. Luckily not as FB as your circles tend to be more intimate on there. Yet there is rarely any outrage to these hateful comments. Double standard shown.
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Hardly the point but still valid.
 
Gulio said:
Anyone that uses that word in a public forum will get into trouble.
Good on Ericsson for firing her, I dont think her colleagues would approve of working with her.
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words are harmless tho and losing your job is a real threat. i can get over being called a ******, i can't get over losing my job as quickly. you can't be against anything without having a mob of people ready to lynch you. you lose your job if you say something racist, you lose your job if you support a homophobic organisation, soon you can't diss the ANC without people wanting to stone you to death
 
ISP cash cow said:
He is the CEO of SABC that doesn't have a degree but just recently obtained a diploma for bible studies (or something like that)
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And of all the religous figures around you ask him to pray for you? Sounds more like the twit wants the woman vilified on national tv.
 
Dubes said:
I have no issue with this. I do have issue with the outrage not being equal when the racist remarks stem from blacks.
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Citation needed.

ToxicBunny said:
This could get interesting in the labour court if you ask me...

The post was made in her personal capacity... so could get tricky for Ericsson to fire her as they have.
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Did she bring her company's name into disrepute?

nand said:
Eish... I've screamed worse things out of my car at taxis. Zuma blames white people all the time, don't see him getting fired.
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Did you also scream your full name and place of work?
 
She probably didn't work for Ericsson directly, but rather through a Service Provider or Labour Broker ..... so technically, Erricsson didn't fire her. They probably just told the company that they no longer wish to have her around.

"A few hours later, they followed up on the tweet, saying: “The subcontractor in question has breached our code of ethics and is no longer working for us."
 
ToxicBunny said:
Unless that clause is in the contract, then I would question the legality of that statement.
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It doesn't have to be on the individual's employment contract. Employment contracts will ordinarily direct employees to comply with all applicable company policies. Most companies now have a social media policy/guideline/standard but unfortunately many people never take the time to appraise themselves with provisions of their ICT policies until they have transgressed such policies.
 
From her LinkedIn profile

Contract Consultant
Networkers International PLC
January 2014 – Present (4 months)
Contractor
Project Manager
Ericsson
January 2014 – March 2014 (3 months)
Internal Projects, PMO
Networkers International Plc
Contractor on-site @ CellC
NewLog
October 2013 – November 2013 (2 months)Cellc Sandton
Site installation documentation: SID & CMODULE, including civils & drawings.
 
JungleBoy said:
It doesn't have to be on the individual's employment contract. Employment contracts will ordinarily direct employees to comply with all applicable company policies. Most companies now have a social media policy/guideline/standard but unfortunately many people never take the time to appraise themselves with provisions of their ICT policies until they have transgressed such policies.
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Oh I completely agree, and I know my companies Social Media policy...

BUT (in my opinion) it cannot and should not be applicable to my personal social media profiles, unless I am employed by the company in a public facing role, and are known as such to be the company representative.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Did she work for Ericsson in a public capacity (such as a PR person or similar)... if not, then no she didn't.....
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The people wondering about the kind of people that work at Ericsson don't care about her position at Ericsson. She brought their name into disrepute and she won't have any recourse at the courts.
 
efitol said:
The people wondering about the kind of people that work at Ericsson don't care about her position at Ericsson. She brought their name into disrepute and she won't have any recourse at the courts.
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And that is entirely the problem in my opinion....

Until yesterday nobody "knew" she worked at Ericsson, its just because she made a stupid and racist post on a social media network, now people dig up her employment details and then use that against her... But as has been stated in this thread, she actually works for a different company, and was subcontracted to Ericsson, so they didn't really fire her, they will just no longer make use of her services.. she is still employed by the contracting company itself, and they will have an issue firing her.
 
Sounds like as usual twitter is full of a bunch of twats.

JungleBoy said:
It doesn't have to be on the individual's employment contract. Employment contracts will ordinarily direct employees to comply with all applicable company policies. Most companies now have a social media policy/guideline/standard but unfortunately many people never take the time to appraise themselves with provisions of their ICT policies until they have transgressed such policies.
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Those policies usually relate to not making statements on behalf of the employer. Companies that try to censor their employees' private speech should be vilified and run out of business.
 
ToxicBunny said:
And that is entirely the problem in my opinion....

Until yesterday nobody "knew" she worked at Ericsson, its just because she made a stupid and racist post on a social media network, now people dig up her employment details and then use that against her... But as has been stated in this thread, she actually works for a different company, and was subcontracted to Ericsson, so they didn't really fire her, they will just no longer make use of her services.. she is still employed by the contracting company itself, and they will have an issue firing her.
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Unless they argue that she brought their name into disrepute with Ericsson, a client...
 
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noxibox said:
Sounds like as usual twitter is full of a bunch of twats.


Those policies usually relate to not making statements on behalf of the employer. Companies that try to censor their employees' private speech should be vilified and run out of business.
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Do you really think it's good for any company to be associated with a racist or homophobic person ? It's not a matter of censoring their employees but companies do have values and principles that are espoused in their policies. In most cases such values and principles are legal, reasonable and constitutional.
When you sign on the dotted line you agree that you will uphold those values and principles. Should you disagree with such values you are welcome to leave the company or be prepared to get fired.
 
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