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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 09:59 AM Mar 2012

ORANGE you glad you don't work for the Law Office of Elizabeth Wellborn?

http://gma.yahoo.com/fired-orange-workers-couldnt-speak-over-cubicle-walls-175508952--abc-news-money.html

Fired Orange Workers Couldn't Speak Over Cubicle Walls?
By SUSANNA KIM | Good Morning America – 19 hours ago

Six of the workers fired from a law firm in Deerfield Beach, Fla. on March 16 for wearing orange have retained a lawyer and may pursue legal action against their former employer, who allegedly would not allow workers to speak to each other over their cubicle walls.

Attorney Donna Ballman now represents six of the 14 support staff who say they were accused of staging a protest against workplace conditions and then fired abruptly, as first reported by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

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Ballman said Elizabeth Wellborn's husband gathered most, though not all, of the employees who were wearing orange that day and they were "told that management thought they were wearing orange shirts to protest working conditions, and they should pack their things and leave," Ballman said.

Ballman said some workers may have been wearing orange to mimic the uniform color often used by the Florida Department of Corrections. Those workers may have been protesting new work rules imposed by a new manager earlier this month. She said, for example, that they could not speak to coworkers over the walls of their cubicles, even to discuss work-related matters.

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Yes, Florida is "at-will" but the NLRA protects "concerted activity", regardless of whether or not you are a member of a union. And if they would be going to happy hour to complain about their crappy workplace, that could most definitely be considered "concerted activity."
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