Posted on 01/30/2021 7:18:19 PM PST by simpson96
An Orange County woman has filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against a former employer she claims wrongly fired her for attending the Jan. 6 protests that culminated in a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Attorneys representing Leah Snyder, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, contend Snyder didn’t enter the Capitol building or take part in violence, but allege her employer, Alight Solutions, “adopted a version of the events” that were “advanced” by an unnamed “cancel culture media outlet.”
According to the lawsuit, Snyder spent more than 20 years working remotely as a computer programmer and coder for Alight Solutions, an outsourcing company based in Illinois.
Based on a search of federal court records, there was no indication as of Wednesday that Snyder is one of the more than 150 people charged in connection to the siege of the Capitol by a mob seeking to overturn the presidential election.
According to the lawsuit, Snyder while taking paid time off, traveled to Washington D.C., where she “listened to speeches made by the President of the United States and other important persons” then joined a group that were “peacefully walking to the capital.” She took several “selfies” with friends, according to the lawsuit, then left and went home.
Snyder later posted the two “selfies” to a social media thread, according to the lawsuit. Her attorneys wrote that Snyder “felt uplifted by virtue of her participation in a peaceful protest” and wanted to “explain her participation to those who had not attended what she reasonably perceived was a peaceful protest of election vote counting procedures.”(snip)
The lawsuit accuses Alight Solutions of failing to protect Snyder from cyber-bullying and alleges the company retaliated against her for exercising her civil rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at eastbaytimes.com ...
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Good!
If I were on the jury I’d award her $30 million.
best news I’ve heard all day all my cheers ahead will be dedicated to this woman who was treated unjustly.I hope she gets all 10 mil and then supports a MAGA candidate in her district.
Be Best
The article doesn’t mention an employment contract or a union with a collective bargaining agreement. Absent that kind of protection, a private employer has almost complete discretion, not subject to being second-guessed by a court. The employee can be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.
Certain specified bad reasons, like racial discrimination, are illegal. Firing an employee for expressing political opinions is NOT illegal.
Her case will be thrown out before it even gets to a jury.
I’m just as guilty as she is, and I was not even closer than 800 miles from the Capitol.
I’m guilty of supporting Trump and his agenda and conservatism. That’s likely the same ‘crime’ that she’s guilty of.
“Labor Code § 98.6 prohibits employers from discharging, discriminating against, retaliating against or taking adverse action against an employee for “lawful conduct occurring during nonworking hours away from the employer’s premises.”
HAPTER 5. Political Affiliations [1101 - 1106] ( Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90. )
1101.
No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy:
(a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office.
(b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.
Bump
About time to sue these communist thugs.
I hope this is the first of HUNDREDS.
There is a template now.
If I were on the jury I would press for that.
Have we heard of any people getting fired for attending the mostly peaceful BLM riots?
Or has Eagle Forgotten them?
Bttt
Excellent find!
good
hope she wins
Or becomes the MAGA candidate.
Except they’re firing people and canceling business contracts based on “reputation”. We don’t like your beliefs? We’re afraid of liberal lynch mobs? Bye-bye!
I am sorry that she got fired...However, I am not sure that the company did anything illegal...
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