They got fired for refusing to pull the books and you think their boss (who is parroting right wing shit about protecting the children) is going to let them repeatedly bring up that they shouldn’t have been removed? You are writing fanfic.
While the headline says they all quit, in the story an employee says they were sent home with what is pretty obviously a threat to comply or get fired:
A former employee who wished to remain anonymous told NBC News she cried when she was instructed by O’Connor to remove the LGBTQ+ titles. When she refused, the employee said she was sent home to reflect if she wanted to work at the store.
This is arguably constructive dismissal, which does count as termination on the part of the employer. It would have to go to court to say for sure, but it’s not something I would fuck around with if I was employing people.
Now the pro-LGBTQ+ employees are jobless and there’s nobody to push for those books being put back on the shelves. They’ll be replaced with bigots.
They got fired for refusing to pull the books and you think their boss (who is parroting right wing shit about protecting the children) is going to let them repeatedly bring up that they shouldn’t have been removed? You are writing fanfic.
Headline says they quit, weren’t fired. Article says one was “sent home.”
While the headline says they all quit, in the story an employee says they were sent home with what is pretty obviously a threat to comply or get fired:
This is arguably constructive dismissal, which does count as termination on the part of the employer. It would have to go to court to say for sure, but it’s not something I would fuck around with if I was employing people.