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As the U.S. awaits the Supreme Court’s official ruling that might overturn Roe v. Wade following a bombshell leak earlier this month, companies have begun scrambling to figure out how to react.
While some have issued public statements affirming their general support of essential reproductive health care, others have pledged to help affected workers access the procedures they need if the court strikes down the law, mostly by paying for any travel costs they might accrue. Currently, 13 states have “trigger laws” enacted that would immediately outlaw abortion with Roe’s overturn.
Meta, however, has been limiting its employees’ discourse around the topic since 2019, according to internal company policy viewed by the Verge.
Meta’s “Respectful Communication Policy” prohibits employees from posting “opinions or debates about abortion being right or wrong, availability or rights of abortion, and political, religious, and humanitarian views on the topic” on an internal communications tool called Workplace, the Verge reported.
Is it legal for a company to explicitly forbid discourse around a specific topic, or at all?
“As a general proposition, the First Amendment protects individuals only against government restrictions on speech,” says Len Niehoff, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School who teaches First Amendment law. “Private employers can,...
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