In the current era of heightened political discourse, seamless social media and hybrid work arrangements, employers face difficult questions as to the extent to which they can lawfully limit or prohibit employee political conduct in and outside of the workplace.

Take Google for instance. In April, Google terminated more than 50 employees who held sit-ins at the company’s New York and California offices to protest Google’s agreement to supply Israel with cloud computing and AI-related services. (https://apnews.com/article/google-israel-protest-workers-gaza-palestinians-96d2871f1340cb84c953118b7ef88b3f).