Reply #33: That's the part that shouldn't be legal.

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Employers should have no right whatever to punish you for saying what you have to say, regardless of the topic of your free speech.

If they do even so much as try to punish you for what you say- even if about them- while "off the clock", it should be law that you are automatically considered "on the clock", 24/7, from your date of hire, and you should be entitled to that back pay in a civil suit PLUS overtime for all time over 40 hours AND time PLUS for working outside your schedule.

Edited to add: that would put and end to this kind of shit OVERNIGHT.

This has never been tried to my knowledge, but I'll side with the employees. It sounds as if they were under their employer's rules even during their private life, and that means they should be paid their wage for that time.

Why? Because their time wasn't really THEIRS.