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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/judges-have-finally-backed-a-christian-school-worker-sacked-for-lgbt-posts/
Even after this case, employees’ rights to say what they think remain disconcertingly limited. They stem not from specific provisions about free speech, but rather incongruously from the law against religious discrimination and its ad hoc extension to other sincerely-held philosophical beliefs. […]
Imagine an employee in trouble for holding forth, in a private capacity, about politics. Not having access to the charmed precincts of anti-discrimination law, they are protected, if at all, in a very limited way.
It need not be like this. […]
Come to think of it, the government has an Employment Rights Bill currently in parliament. This provides a golden opportunity to protect free speech. A deft amendment from the Tories or Reform (or both) to stop employers gagging their workers’ free speech would put Labour on the spot. Labour say they want a swing of power in favour of working people. Are they now prepared to live up to this by giving them the most fundamental right of all, the right to speak their mind? The squirming in Whitehall will be interesting to watch.
https://archive.ph/A5A7V
Even after this case, employees’ rights to say what they think remain disconcertingly limited. They stem not from specific provisions about free speech, but rather incongruously from the law against religious discrimination and its ad hoc extension to other sincerely-held philosophical beliefs. […]
Imagine an employee in trouble for holding forth, in a private capacity, about politics. Not having access to the charmed precincts of anti-discrimination law, they are protected, if at all, in a very limited way.
It need not be like this. […]
Come to think of it, the government has an Employment Rights Bill currently in parliament. This provides a golden opportunity to protect free speech. A deft amendment from the Tories or Reform (or both) to stop employers gagging their workers’ free speech would put Labour on the spot. Labour say they want a swing of power in favour of working people. Are they now prepared to live up to this by giving them the most fundamental right of all, the right to speak their mind? The squirming in Whitehall will be interesting to watch.
https://archive.ph/A5A7V