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On April 16, Google employees staged a sit-in at the Sunnyvale, Calif. office of Google Cloud President Thomas Kurian over Project Nimbus , the company's billion-dollar cloud contract with the Israeli government.In April, Google fired 50 staffers after protests over its contracts with Israel. As employers worry that campus activism could spread to the workplace, Forbes spoke with legal experts about the protections employees have—and don’t have—when it comes to speaking out at work.
For employers, a recent ruling from the NLRB may expand questions about some workers’ protected political speech and its connection to working conditions. And for employees, the fundamental question is this: “What can I really do and say when it comes to activism at work?” Add concerns that the current pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses could spill into the workplace, and lawyers say their phones have been lighting up with employers asking for advice. Sam Schwartz-Fenwick, a labor and employment lawyer at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, says there’s “a real fear of how to respond.
“There are too many ways where employers and employees are going to fall into traps by either clamping down too hard, or risking their job by being too expressive. Everybody should be careful here.” The decision has gotten employers’ attention. “A lot of employers took notice of that,” says Lindsay Burke, a Washington, D.C.-based employment lawyer who represents employers. The NLRB, she says, took a “pretty expansive view of speech that on its face might look political, but then could just be tied back to concerns about the way the workplace is operating.”
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