Comments on: Dilemma Of The Month: How To Handle An Activist Employee https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html Everything to make HR better Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: BethRA https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html#comment-213197 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:01:37 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5052#comment-213197 In reply to grannybunny.

What Elizabeth West said.

Also, if he really is leaving pamphlets in multiple places, I’d say that’s crossing a line regardless of the subject matter. It’s not bullying, but it is obnoxious and mess-making.

]]> By: LG https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html#comment-213182 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:51:43 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5052#comment-213182 It may (or may not!) interest you to know that there is a case about to go through the UK tribunals which will rule on whether ‘ethical veganism’ can be considered a philosphical belief system and afforded the same protection as a religion. Most views are that it probably will be. There is far less conviction that his dismissal was due to discrimination on the grounds of his ethical veganism. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46385597

]]> By: Camellia https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html#comment-213171 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:11:54 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5052#comment-213171 Well written, excellent outline and scripts to follow!

]]> By: Elizabeth West https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html#comment-213168 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:53:28 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5052#comment-213168 In reply to grannybunny.

You have a point, but Suzanne didn’t say the literature was bullying. She said that criticizing people for their food choices was bullying. The OP didn’t explicitly say the employee was doing this, but I think she included it in case it was happening or started to happen.

]]> By: grannybunny https://www.evilhrlady.org/2018/12/dilemma-of-the-month-how-to-handle-an-activist-employee.html#comment-213163 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:02:24 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5052#comment-213163 Unless it’s an industry dealing with animal-based products, I hardly see leaving vegan literature around the workplace as either bullying or an offense worth firing someone over, especially if other employees are allowed to post or “strew” non-work related materials around. Co-workers are free to peruse, or ignore, the materials, at their option. It is annoying, but so are a lot of other sincerely-held religious-type beliefs. If employees are not allowed to post — or otherwise distribute — non-work related items, that’s a totally separate issue, that can be addressed without regard to the content of the materials.

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