Ah, the joys of working in a state that that has the 'right to work' or, in Florida's case, 'at will'.
From the Sun-Sentinel:
This Friday, 14 workers wearing orange shirts were called into a conference room, where an executive said he understood there was a protest involving orange, the employees were wearing orange, and they all were fired.
The executive said anyone wearing orange for an innocent reason should speak up. One employee immediately denied involvement with a protest and explained the happy-hour color.
The executives conferred outside the room, returned and upheld the decision: all fired, said Lou Erik Ambert, 31, of Coconut Creek, a litigation para-legal who said he was terminated.
"There is no office policy against wearing orange shirts. We had no warning. We got no severance, no package, no nothing," said Ambert. "I feel so violated."
So there we have it. A law firm hears a rumor about a 'protest' and takes action.
Granted, there are a lot of remaining questions, but the fact remains, that it looks like the only reason that some of these employees were fired is simply because they happened to be wearing orange. Yes, yes, the executive did ask for innocent reasons, and he heard the reason, but it didn't matter.
Florida, like many other states, including my current residence of Iowa, is a 'right to work' state. What a laugh! It's a right to fire for whatever reason we say state. In this case, for some reason the law firm didn't like the color orange. There wasn't any warning, there wasn't any severance, there wasn't anything except for sudden unemployment.
Welcome to the Republican paradise.
9:29 AM PT: Ok, per coffeetalk, this doesn't have anything to do with worker's rights, as all states would allow this idiocy.
But it is still idiocy. And the workers are still out of a job for no reason other than the fact that they had put on an orange shirt on Friday.
9:31 AM PT: Now, I'm off to go see my Mom.