Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap.
Google is now the world’s fourth most valuable public company, right behind Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, which has a market cap of just over $3 trillion and overtook Apple earlier this year for first place.
When you agree to at-will employment, you agree to adhere to the conduct policy of the business. Where the law comes in, involves rightful termination. If you violate a company conduct policy (depending on the severity of misconduct, in this case it’s acceptable language), the company is required to notify you that your action is in violation of said policy, and that further action would result in termination. If you continue to violate the policy, they can legally terminate you and will likely succeed in representing their case at an unemployment hearing, leaving you without benefits.
There’s an interview with one Google employee who explained that they were notified of the conduct violation on multiple instances, as well as arrest warnings. He said he knew the police were coming to arrest them, but was surprised when he received termination notice the following day. If they had a union representative, they would have been informed on how to legally protect themselves, and probably still have their jobs.
Separately, they were arrested and charged with trespassing. If your employer asks you to leave for reasons of misconduct, and you remain on the premises, they can have you arrested for trespassing.
Trespassing is against the law, yep. Doesn’t look like anybody was disputing that or ignorant of anything you’re talking about. The person above was correctly making a needed distinction; “the law” has been conflated with “company policy.”
The point they’re challenging, that I made, is that knowing employment law will protect your job when protesting. Your rights as an American do not supersede company policy in employment law. I’m just trying to prevent other people from losing their jobs due to misinformation giving them the impression that the Constitution will protect them from termination or loss of unemployment benefits.
That’s the mistake you’ve been making that I pointed out: they were never challenging the fact that knowing employment law will protect your job when protesting. They were challenging a conflation of the law with company policy.
No one in this discussion thinks the Constitution will protect them from termination when the company has employment law on their side, they’re insisting against (what seemed to be your) assertions that acting against company policy was a matter of criminal law.
E: They said “It is […] legal to voice political opinions, even on company time, even on company platforms, and it is also legal for the company to fire the people doing so.” And you replied "That’s the misinformation that caused these people their jobs. Stop spreading it. You’re wrong, and dangerously misinforming others about US laws. You cannot voice political opinions at work if the company has a policy against the practice." They weren’t spreading misinformation, man. You, however, are using words like “you cannot” about company policy, like a bootlicker.