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Court rules that employee who called boss 'nasty m**********r' SHOULD NOT have been fired

Court rules that employee who called boss 'nasty m**********r' SHOULD NOT have been fired

A judge in Manhattan, US, has ruled that it’s not a fireable offence to call your boss... well, you can see it in the title...

The New York Post reports that an employee at Pier Sixty, Hernan Perez, wrote an expletive-laden Facebook post in which he verbally attacked his supervisor. After the post was brought to management’s attention, he was terminated after 13 years of employment. 

However, a judge has ruled that this was unlawful – claiming that because the employees were in the middle of a union battle then the post was legal.

The post read: “Bob is such a nasty m**********r [he] don’t know how to talk to people!

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