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>>blago+(OP)
> Despite that instruction to stay home with pay, he came on site today, March 30, further putting the teams at risk

The employee was exposed to another employee who tested positive for covid-19. They asked him to stay home with pay for 14 days and he came back to the building to protest, putting other employees at risk.

>>ertemp+O3
If it was actually on-site, yes, Amazon did the right thing. If it was by the street--somewhere any member of the public has free speech--no, but assuming he was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, going out in public is pretty messed up, and pretty hypocritical.

>>dehrma+R6
It's generally legal to fire employees for "free speech" activities done outside the workplace.

More morally hazardous of course, but I don't think anyone would really even challenge the cause here (it's trivially easy to argue that this behavior shows they would endanger workers within the workplace as well).

>>bpodgu+Q7
Even in the United States, it's typically illegal to retaliate against employees for organizing: https://www.workplacefairness.org/unions-retaliation