May N.Y. Businesses Fire Employees for Using Parler and Gab?

Reason Magazine ^ | 1/27/2021 | Eugene Volokh

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May N.Y. Businesses Fire Employees for Using Parler and Gab? Colleen Oefelein was fired by the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, and the incident illustrates the vagueness of New York law on this point.

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With people working from home now via the Company VPN, “Company Time” is 24/7.

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I have seen HR demand to see your social media profiles to hire you as well as during security / background checks.

[buckalfa]

"This is wrong, and there must be a way to fight back. Our side sits on their hands... again.

Agreed, DI. As the election was engineered, we have been engineered into a post election situation where any resistance is labeled as domestic terrorism. It just seems the events of the last ten months have been perfectly choreographed by Pelosi/Obama/Soros to silence conservatives voices. As truth to power is spoken with money in this era, perhaps economic disobedience is the only way.

Also thank you once again for all of your analytical work you did last year on the contagion data.

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Which would be my sign to remove myself from consideration. Interviews go both ways.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, and I’d add in more than a few GOPe names to that short
list you submitted.

Rush has just uncorked comments on the Republican party
trying to purge the MAGA movement from it’s ranks.

So willing to oblige.

Thanks for the mention of the COVID-19 Update. No problem...

[KeyLargo]

Excellent article to read.

The Chicago Contrarian

The Rise of Anti-Merit: Objective Criteria Goes by the Wayside in Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at Chicago Companies

February 16, 2021 Alisa ROSENBAUM

Executives are worried about the legality and business impacts of “woke” discrimination in hiring and promotion.
Based on interviews with private sector leaders across the manufacturing and professional services industries, The Chicago Contrarian senses a radical shift in hiring and promotion policies in Chicagoland companies. 2021 has thrown “merit to the periphery,” creating what one local executive describes as “the rise of woke nepotism” in hiring and promotion.

This is a dramatic shift. “Even before the advent of modern democracies, businesses have generally relied upon one primary metric to gauge performance and the worth of individual employees and job candidates: merit,” he observes.
Granted, other factors also have historically played a key role in hiring and advancement. Economic cycles (i.e., growth vs. contraction), government policy/regulations (e.g., the elimination of the Keystone Pipeline will cost thousands of skilled workers their jobs), and interpersonal relationships also matter, no doubt. Yet despite these considerations, merit has been the single biggest factor that determines success for employers and employees alike in the past.
But times are changing.

Gaslighting merit.

“In 2021, what we are seeing is really the opposite of merit-based hiring,” a senior research analyst observes. “This can put up insurmountable barriers to those which fall outside of a selected bucket.” She notes that “2021 practices place primary emphasis for evaluation on alternative factors to merit. It deemphasizes demonstrated capability, skills, track record and certifications when considering recruitment, promotion and contract awards.”

Read more: https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/the-rise-of-anti-merit-objective-criteria-goes-by-the-wayside-in-diversity-and-inclusion-initiatives-at-chicago-companies