VP of playgirl fired for being Republican?

if she sues and wins i foresee a rash of lawsuits against faux news after the liberal housecleaning that took place after rupert murdoch placed roger ailes in charge there.

So lets say your my VP of my company and the dicretion of the company has been going nowher but up. I find out that you are not in a political party I support and fire you based on the fact that you are whatever you believe in. I think it's stupid. Unless the person is not performing at the level they should be, there is no reason for termination. That my friend is what we call discrimination.

It is pretty stupid to fire someone only because she is a Republican, which leads me to believe she was fired for some other reason which had a direct effect on the company's bottom line. Of course this might not be the case. You are right about it being discrimination, but it is not impermissible discrimination under federal law. However, under some state laws, depending on where a suit is brought, she may have a case.

So are the dudes who wrote Airplane. But thanks!

Agreed. Plus it's just not rational to fire an otherwise productive employee because of her political affiliation. It's inefficient to do so and bad business. I imagine that most reasonable employers in the business of turning a proffit, could give a damn about an otherwise productive employee's political affiliation. This kind of thing seems likely to work its self out according to how much the employer vallues the employee.

I might be reading this wrong but, are you saying you need to be a marginalized minority who is widely discriminated against in order to have your freedom of expression protected? Which is essentially what political party affiliation is.

I don't think there needs to be legislation here to protect party affiliations, but I do think that sort of thing may already be covered depending on how you interpret the 1st ammendment.

i guess the other thing is that if a workplace was so militant in its political atmosphere, someone of the opposite mindset either a) wouldn't work there in the first place or b) quit of their own volition.

ha! i'd fire you from my ice cream company, though the irony is that i'm lactose intolerent too.

This isn't a freedom of speech issue because the 1st amendment does not apply to private employers. It applies to the federal government and the states, by way of incorporation by the 14th amendment. Title VII is a federal statute which applies to employment discrimination in matters of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Congress saw fit to protect these classes from discrimination in the work place, based on the immutable characteristics of those classes, and chose not to protect "political affiliation." Certainly the wisdom of this is debatable, but not Congress' constitutional authority to do so.


[Edited on Mar 22, 2005 by dead_ringer]

Ok, I must be confused then. Ignore me, I'll go back to the whimsically insouciant posting.

If this happened in the 90's and he was fired for being a Republican, I'd be livid. But anyone calling themselves a Republican these days is either a sociopath, a millionaire, or waiting for God’s annihilating love to wash over us all.

bwahahahaaha!

you know what's sad...

She, as a repersentitive of Playgirl magazine, made a political statement, the person who hired her didn't believe this statement was apporpriate in the context of her employment. I delivered pizzas, if I was to say to someone I delivered to, "Vote for Kerry" and they called my boss to complain I know I would have been fired.

Whether or not this was why she was fired, (it appears that it isn't) it is still a valid reason for termination.

Go down a few days on this blog for a first hand account- http://www.tinynibbles.com/violetblue.html