Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

If an Israeli employee employed by an Irish company publicly labeled Ireland a country of terrorists, that employee deserves the sack.

Courtney from Clondalkin has gotten her 15 mins a fame

So, what.....HR call her in and say, "that wasn't very nice, Courtney!"

What would be sufficient? UN / Human Rights Watch Amnesty International? This is for educational purposes...

I disagree. International laws on warfare are simply words used to put a framework around a moral and ethical point — they are imperfect as any laws are. They are also written and agreed to by States (not private citizens), and ultimately are heavily influenced by the great State powers of the world — and so the question of what is good warfare and bad warfare is written by them and is written to the advantage of the manner in which they conduct war. So, a State can bomb an enclosed space like Gaza, kill hundreds of children, and say that unlike Hamas they didn't personally and directly target those kids even if by any rational standard they were reckless to the fact of killing children.

When the shoe is on the other foot, what does the State have done with you when you didn't mean to kill someone but you acted recklessly? Indeed, what would you have done to someone who recklessly killed your child?

International law is a good thing, but ultimately you must always remember that it can be used as a permission slip for a government to be allowed to bomb your house, kill you, kill your children, kill your parents, kill your neighbours — and coolly explain it all away with a glorified "woopsie" if it didn't fit within some wording that makes it a crime.

That's why we should all hold States to a higher standard than the standards they apply to themselves.

No, HR say absolutely nothing if it was a personal statement not made while representing or advertising the company.

Just reading the article, and it says she posted comments on LinkedIn.

I don't use it myself, but as far as I know your employment history and current employer is a big part of your profile.

If she had Wix listed as her current employer while making those statements on that platform, then there is grounds for disciplinary action.

I would say that an immediate termination of contract for an employee of over four years however is going to be an easy win in an unfair dismissal case.

Doesn't apply in the case of gross misconduct. Immediate dismissal is possible in such circumstances.

Supporting terrorist violence against your company's owners could well meet the definition of gross misconduct.

She could really be only dismissed if found to be making offensive comments such as racist or homophobic ones. Criticising the Netanyahu regime (a political opinion basically) doesn't seem near enough grounds for dismissal.

Exactly.

Like they've done themselves no favors in the instant sacking. Moral will be crap in there now and will affect productivity. If they'd have sat down and discussed it could have all been avoided. But that moderate attitude is lost on Arabs and Israeli's... they're very extreme

It's obvious Israel has a right to defend itself under international law and is doing so in accordance with that.

A ceasefire saves Hamas.

Why would sunak go along with that. No matter what way it is presented for sale.

Going by the Independent it wasn't instant, she got told to stop and then kept going with more posts.

It's called bringing a company into disrepute, if your boss wakes up to an inbox full of complaints from something you've done in a very public way you're getting fired.

Well, that is why people need to be careful and considerate as regards where and how they express themselves.

We can't hide behind this "political views" for every case of where someone makes claims. I can say what I like because these are my "political views." That is a nonsense

I think it was mentioned that Courtney hadn't one mention of the Hamas butchery during her political commentary in slating Israel. Not a whiff of compassion/condemnation for the October 7 massacre; she was so keen to jump on the Israel bashing bandwagon, that the October 7 massacre slipped her mind. And when I consider this, it is why I believe that she doesn't give a fiddlers about the situation, really.

Seen a recent enough WRC ruling where a employee did something naughty in the bathroom of another business he got arrested and charged but not yet convicted and it was reported in the papers.

Employer fires him, he goes to WRC and loses. You don't have to have done anything bad or illegal just get your name out there in a negative way.

And then there's the case of a Irish rail working maiming 2 women in a drunken car accident getting sent to prison, fired while in prison and somehow wining at the WRC as they took too long to fire him.