Free speech discussion

@divegeester said
When it is a contract over multiple years.

😂

@a-unique-nickname said
Getting your lawyer to read something and reading it yourself are two different things.

It’s part of what employment and corporate lawyers are paid to do on behalf of wealthy individuals and businesses.

@divegeester said
I’d sack them for bringing an arm of my business to a halt. Nothing to with the law, except that I’d work within it.

Do workers not have the right for strike action?

@a-unique-nickname said
I believe that you're employed.
Did you read the contract word for word?

Yes I am and yes I did, every word. Especially the sections on compensation, non disclosure and non compete.

@a-unique-nickname said
😂

Contracts extend both in pay and length, it’s normal practice to evaluate big ones over both axis.

@a-unique-nickname said
Do workers not have the right for strike action?

Depends on the contract with the employer. Footballers for example can be heavily fined by their clubs for refusing to play.

You really ought to read up a little instead of relying on me to educate you.

@a-unique-nickname said
Freedom of speech however should be a right regardless of a contract.

"Freedom of speech" can obviously be limited by the terms of a contract. Lineker still had "freedom of speech" but he surely understood that he could legitimately be suspended for exercising it especially when he had agreed to the limitation.

@a-unique-nickname said
I doubt he read the contract.

This, to you, is a reason why the BBC wasn't within its rights to suspend him?

@a-unique-nickname said
I think he might have made a mistake comparing it to 1930s Germany, that was unfortunate and takes the shift away from his disprovel of the new law.

Freedom of speech however should be a right regardless of a contract.

That was the "mistake" that meant the BBC pretty much had no choice but to suspend him.

@divegeester said
Depends on the contract with the employer. Footballers for example can be heavily fined by their clubs for refusing to play.

You really ought to read up a little instead of relying on me to educate you.

Just because a contract is signed doesn't mean everything inside it is legal. You should know that.

@a-unique-nickname said
Just because a contract is signed doesn't mean everything inside it is legal. You should know that.

Is there part of Lineker's contract you think was illegal?

@fmf said
Is there part of Lineker's contract you think was illegal?

Hold on while I give it a read.

@suzianne said
And because no one will see it in Sports.

Take it to the Sports Forum, Spanky.

Or debates

@divegeester said
I’d sack them for bringing an arm of my business to a halt. Nothing to with the law, except that I’d work within it.

He cant be sacked he sub-contracts himself out, the Beeb know they would loose all round, gary would sue the pants of em,they would loose the best football presenter around, he has already been aproached by BT SPORT so rock on Gary and tell the TRUTH about these Tory pariahs.....The BADGER has spoken.

@a-unique-nickname said
I think most are siding with the footballer.

I doubt it. I'd imagine that a healthy chunk, maybe half, of the UK population more or less agree with the government's hardline stance on immigration. Let the politicians and talking heads and vox pops battle it out. The BBC doesn't need one of its presenters sneering at maybe half the population/audience by suggesting that they support Nazi policies.