The recent outbreaks of lawlessness and hatred at Yale University and Columbia University have been indeed shocking. Those events, coupled with the tepid response from the administration of those schools to the protesters, only encourages more disruption, more lawlessness, and more hatred.
As employers, how will you respond to a similar situation if it happens at your company?
Starting this Wednesday, April 24th, we will examine Free Speech in a concise way relevant to your business. This upcoming three post series is the Free Speech Primer:
the basics of Free Speech1
Free Speech in the workplace from an employer’s perspective
how to deal with disruptive employees.
This series is available to all subscribers (free and paid).
Stay tuned.
For the next few posts, I am using “Free Speech” as a defined term. As a matter of proper grammar (yes, there is such a thing), Unnecessary Capitalization of Words should be avoided. You see people do this all the time on social media, thinking that capitalizing words incorrectly somehow confers greater persuasive force on the argument contained in their social media post. It does not. In fact, it only broadcasts the fact that the poster in question has little command of the English language. The practice of unnecessary capitalization is a close relative the practice of unnecessary punctuation. When. Someone. Thinks. That. A. Period. Behind. Every. Word. Makes. Their. Point. More. Persuasive. This practice is totally frivolous and should be avoided.
J. Bryan Tuk is a business attorney with 25 years experience representing small businesses, creatives and nonprofit organizations at Tuk Business & Entertainment Law. He is the author of risk, create, change: a survival guide for startups and creators.