> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Jim Sharkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Geen > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: RE: TIME OUT Re: And here we go again.
> I'm not sure how things work in the Netherlands, but here, as a private > company, McKinsey is under no obligations to allow Gautam to speak his > mind and continue to employ him. If, for example, I was a neo-Nazi and > my employer found out, that employer *can* fire me, as I understand it. Not so in The Netherlands. You can only be fired for reasons that are directly related to your performance and behaviour. You can be fired for not doing your job properly, for gross misbehaviour (such as assault and theft), but not for being a neo-Nazi or for speaking your mind. As long as it does not interfere with your work, you can call yourself a Creationist Fascist Ninja Jedi Knight Overlord Who Believes The World Is Flat or anything else you like without having to fear losing your job over it. In job interviews, employers are not even *allowed* (with few exceptions) to ask about your political and religious beliefs (or about several other personal matters). > Free speech, etc., is something that cannot be abridged by the > government, but a private company (again, as I understand it) is not > constrained the same way. I think it is. Like any other entity in a country, it is bound by the laws of that country. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
