WUWT: What happens when a middle class climate activist with a professional job gets arrested for gluing themselves to a public building?
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What an intriguing issue – how do you deal with otherwise excellent staff who suddenly discover an overwhelming inner compulsion to break the law, often in ways which deliberately provoke arrest?
How do you handle repeat unscheduled absence, with the possibility of a longer period of incarceration, from a personnel policy perspective?
What will be the backlash if an employer fires someone for missing work due to their climate activism? Will FOE or the WWF show up at the employer’s doorstep with thousands of demonstrators, demanding the activist employee gets their job back? more here
Getting arrested for protesting is kind of like swearing in a job interview – unlikely to help you, and may hurt you.
For those who ‘believe’ in ‘climate change’ (by which they always mean CO2-caused warming), I would love to have them take me down the path they took. Certainly at some point in the past they were ignorant, then were introduced to – what? – articles, research, something that convinced them of the horrors of driving an SUV instead of a Prius. I wish I knew – but although they constantly seek to convince me they do so through shaming rather than by taking me down the presumably rational path they took.
Presumably Rational, lol
Once their political side is exposed, double up their workload, halve deadlines. Barring outright firing, that is….
Simple, make an arrest of the employee a violation of the employer’s employee code of conduct. You can make on a case-by-case basis if necessary.
This is easy for me to answer. Simply apply the employee handbook accordingly, along with anything else the employee agreed to upon hiring.
I never understood people who tax their employers, especially when they themselves screw up. It’s like calling your waitress fat and then sending your food back to the kitchen.
What kind of work atmosphere do you want to work in?
Give ’em more glue.
Hire a replacement.
Problem solved.
On to the next fiasco.
Just read a horrific story about 3 employees at Sonic in TX (one was a manager) who put Ecstasy in a kids meal. She had an outstanding warrant and one of the other perps had 4 outstanding warrants.
Thorough background checks would be an excellent starter. Of course obama stopped that by removing the felon inquiry on Fed govt applications.
I used to be against digging into people’s social media, but we’ve crossed the rubicon. If you’re dumb enough to plaster your deepest, darkest, sinister behavior/desires, so be it.
Oftentimes innocent lives could’ve been spared.
Simple: Do what you want on your own time. An unexcused absence, either to protest or to serve jail time is grounds for discipline. Depending on the rules agreed to upon hiring, discipline can include firing. I would allow them to use accumulated vacation time to serve a jail sentence, but when it’s used up, you are gone.
The same one sentence life advice my dad gave me when I was a teenager:
“DON’T get yourself arrested, and waste your one phone call on me! Only thing I’LL tell you is, ‘DON’T drop the soap!'” 😮
I mostly agree with Tony R. It’s not the employer’s business unless and until it affects or reflects on the employer’s business.
Naive, janitor. Those libertarian MYOB days are long gone (where have you been the past 2+ years?):
these Leftist creeps threaten the businesses, if they punish the radical employee.
EXCISE THE CANCER as quickly as possible.
Kick their ass to the curb!
Give them 100% commission jobs. If they can sell the product more power to them and if they can’t let nature take its course.