Employee Terminated for Profanity Reinstated because Profanity was Pervasive at Facility

A Coca-Cola bottler unlawfully fired a union steward who used profanity in front of company executives and dozens of employees. The ALJ said the National Labor Relations Act gives employees “some leeway for impulsive behavior,” and the decision illustrates that profanity in the workplace isn’t likely to take an employee outside the protection of federal…
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Think Twice about Firing the Employee Who Calls you a Nasty MF

You read that right. You need to think twice before firing an employee even if that employee calls a manager a “nasty mother f—–.” A catering company violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired a server who called his manager a “nasty mother f—–” on Facebook just two days before the company’s union…
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