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Running head : MANAGING CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

Managing Corporate Communications

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Managing Corporate Communications

Company accused of firing over facebook post by Greenhouse

It is illegal to fire employees after they discuss working condition on any social sites . The employees have a right to form or join any unions and this is according to the National Labor Relation Act . Therefore union or nonunion workers are not to be punished by their employers for discussing working conditions among themselves . Despite this act a company still went ahead

and fired its employee after posting a comment about her supervisor on Facebook . American Medical Response of Connecticut , ambulance service , fired an emergency technician , saying that she had violated one of the company 's policies that prohibit employees to depict the company in any way on any social network sites (Greenhouse , November 18 , 2010

According to Lafe Solomon (as cited by Greenhouse , November 18 , 2010 the case was a straight forward one under the National Labor Relations Act and does it not matter where it took place . This sort of accusation is right if we generally look at the freedom of workers . But it does not give a worker the right to post slanderous words about a fellow worker for he / she has a right to privacy . By taking this information to the third party one has already violated another 's privacy , which is the case of Dawnmarie Souza . Having had a conflict with her supervisor , she had no right to or ridicule...