Haven’t we heard this before?
A Bourne, Massachusetts firefighter was recently fired for — imagine this — his Facebook posts in which he "allegedly railed against [a] police officer over some incident, angrily carried on about being forced to work on the Fourth of July holiday and made a homosexual slur", according to press reports
The news came late Monday: The NLRB’s case against an employer for allegedly firing an employee due to a Facebook post had settled. The background of that case can be found in one of my November 2010 posts. The case name is: American Medical Response of Connecticut, Inc., 34-CA-12576.
Over the last 24 hours, there’s been a lot of drama as details start getting released over the departure of the Connecticut DOT Commissioner last week. Did he really resign? Was he pushed out?
Late yesterday, Governor Rell released a new statement that suggested that she sought the resignation after allegations of inappropriate behavior were raised.
Let me preface this post by acknowledging the obvious: This upcoming story is a bit like watching a car wreck. You know you shouldn’t look and it really doesn’t have anything to do with you, and yet you can’t help but stare. The story of a new lawsuit probably doesn’t merit a post, but some lawsuits are just too
Like the television show, Lost, reading the Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision in Curry v. Allan S. Goodman, Inc. will leave readers with more questions than answers at the end of the day. (For more background on the case, see this prior post.)
Those unanswered and indeed, troubling questions arise from the suggestion by the
A few posts this week caught my eye:
"You’re hired. No wait, you’re fired."
That’s essentially what happened in the case of Petitte v. DSL.net, a decision recently handed down by the Connecticut Appellate Court. The Appeals Court rejected Mr. Petitte’s claims that the company should be estopped from firing him.
The background is fairly straight-forward: