Talking politics in the office. What’s allowed under the law
I first addressed the legality of employer regulation of employee political activity in my first Law at Work column eight years ago. The political environment is as polarized now as it was then.
In August, Gallup released the results of a poll probing the prevalence and effect of talking politics at work under the headline “Talking Politics at Work: A Double-Edged Sword.” Gallup found nearly half of U.S. workers it polled in February had discussed political issues at work in the past month.
Gallup found such conversations were more common in male-dominated industries than in female-dominated industries; that men were more likely to have had political discussions in the workplace (54 percent) than women (35 percent); and that such conversations were more common among those working fully on-site or in a hybrid arrangement than those working fully remotely.
Click here to read the full article written by SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton and published in The San Diego Union-Tribune.