Says you, Bull Spunkey-punky.
I'm a small ($1.8m) businessman - garden center & nursery owner in Penna - and have been around that track 4x in 15 years, after hundreds of employees, with only less than a handful of problem employees, and the courts won't touch it. The EEOC/OSHA/FEDS cave on firings, every time; the exception being blatant discrimination, which is very, very hard to prove.
On my private - with public exclusion - property, I can fire an employee, for ANY REASON I deem worthy; likewise, I can ban a retail customer for ANY REASON I deem worthy. Other than obvious racial, sexual, handicapped etc discrimination, there are no legal limits on employers' ability to fire employees.
If I had one of the three-plus, previously-stated category employees, I certainly wouldn't use their *protection category* status to fire them. Rather, it would be, "It isn't working out. You're fired. No further discussion is warranted. Check will be in the mail on Friday at 3pm. Bye."
Come onto my property as an employee or customer with ANYTHING THAT OFFENDS ME, and I'll drop you like a 50lb sack of sh!t, on a 20mile hike, and throw you outta here! Try me; dare you.
The so-called *BS* you espouse, is in your obvious liberal head, spunky-punky.
1(A) voting... in any primary, special, or general election;
(5) any citizen because he is or has been, or in order to intimidate such citizen...from lawfully aiding or encouraging other persons to participate, without discrimination on account of race, color, religion or national origin, in any of the benefits or activities described in subparagraphs (1)(A) through (1)(E) or subparagraphs (2)(A) through (2)(F), or participating lawfully in speechor peaceful assembly opposing any denial of the opportunity to so participate - shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both
18USC241 Conspiracy against rights.(In the event an associate of the employer was involved in the decision)
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or...
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; ...
The complaint from the story:
"We were going back to work from break, and my manager told me that Phil said to remove the sticker off my car or I was fired," she said. "I told him that Phil couldn't tell me who to vote for. He said, 'Go tell him.' "
She went to Gaddis' office, knocked on the door and entered on his orders.
"Phil and another man who works there were there," she said. "I asked him if he said to remove the sticker and he said, 'Yes, I did.' I told him he couldn't tell me who to vote for. When I told him that, he told me, 'I own this place.' I told him he still couldn't tell me who to vote for."
Gobbell said Gaddis told her to "get out of here."
"I asked him if I was fired and he told me he was thinking about it," she said. "I said, 'Well, am I fired?' He hollered and said, 'Get out of here and shut the door.' "
She said her manager was standing in another room and she asked him if that meant for her to go back to work or go home. The manager told her to go back to work, but he came back a few minutes later and said, " 'I reckon you're fired. You could either work for him or John Kerry,' " Gobbell said."