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fucktoyprincess -> RE: How low will major companies go? (11/10/2012 6:15:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
Illegal and Immoral things? That's pretty funny considering how much of BDSM would be considered illegal and immoral by the majority of the country. But just for laughs please tell me what law requires a company to hire more people?
Nowhere was I referring to hiring more people. Where did I say that.
Just to make it clearer -
It is ILLEGAL to fire someone solely for having voted for a particular party in an election.
There is a line of cases starting with Elrod v. Burns in 1976 where the Supreme Court ruled that you cannot fire a public employee based on their party affiliation unless the employee occupies a policy making position (in that case, a sheriff sought to fire deputies who belonged to the opposite political party).
For private situations, there is also a Federal statute, 42 USC 1985(3), that prohibits conspiracies to deprive persons of equal rights and privileges that has been raised in various contexts. The statute, which is a Reconstruction era law, is broadly drafted to correct some of the abuses that arose after the Civil War for blacks trying to exercise their rights. However, it addresses "any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws" which could include party affiliation, or a particular political viewpoint. The "class" must be one that is sufficiently defined, so it is more likely to apply to party affiliation, such as Democrat, rather than an amorphous group, such as liberal.
There are also state laws, for example, in California, Labor Code 1101 and 1102 prohibit employers from forbidding, directing, controlling, terminating or threatening to terminate an employee based on politics. This was further expanded on in Ali v. LA Focus Publication (2003) 112 CA4th 1477.
And I personally consider it an IMMORAL act to exploit employees. (This has nothing to do with religion. This has to do with being a decent human being.)
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