Friending and Foeing — Posting gripes about one’s boss on Facebook is protected speech, the National Labor Relations Board says in the case of an emergency medical technician who called hers “a 17″ — ambulance lingo for a psychiatric patient — and drew co-workers’ commiserative comments.
Louis Chodoff
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American Medical Response of Connecticut discharged Dawnmarie Souza for breaking a policy against online disparagement of the company or its employees. In an Oct. 27 complaint, the NLRB says the company’s policy violated workers’ rights to “concerted activity” discussing work-related subjects, such as pay and working conditions, with colleagues.
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