Employee Free Speech Rights Endangered

Article here. Not directly MRM-related, but tangential and relevant. Excerpt:

'Social media and activism are intrinsic parts of many Americans’ lives. But what if the cause an employee espouses is one which the employer disagrees with, or has concerns that it may interfere with business prospects? In the past, an employee’s private life may never have come to the attention the company. But with the rise of social media, few activities are truly private.

To be clear, the issue does not involve what an employee does while at work. It only concerns what the employee does in his own time and off company premises.
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Concerns about employee free speech extend beyond examples where there may be a business interest involved. According to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), much of the interest in employee free speech arose in April of 2014, when:

"the CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was forced out of his job simply because he had donated to a 2008 California referendum that defined marriage as between one man and one woman."
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NCPPR has met with some success, convincing Visa Inc. to provide free speech protections to its employees.'