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.
“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.
Have we heard of any people getting fired for attending the mostly peaceful BLM riots?
Or has Eagle Forgotten them?
I am sorry that she got fired...However, I am not sure that the company did anything illegal...
Neither the California Fair Employment & Housing Act, nor the Unruh Civil Rights Act, not federal employment legislation bar termination for political reasons. She’s toast
Well you say that, but now we live in "emanations of penumbras" land. All it will take to add political speech to protected classes is for a demoncrap to get fired for his or her participation in a biden rally and the black robes will legislate inclusion of political bent into the EEO laws.
However, you are correct, judges will toss out Conservative cases until such time as it is a leftie who is getting dinged.