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NJ panel upholds firing of worker who called BLM racist

By Kimberlee Guess
May 20, 2022
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By Emily Brill (May 20, 2022, 5:16 p.m. EDT) – A healthcare system did not violate a worker’s constitutional rights by firing her for posting comments on Facebook about the Black Lives Matter movement that managers have deemed offensive, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Friday.

In a 16-page opinion, a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, agreed with a lower court that the First Amendment and Article I of the New Jersey Constitution did not prohibit private employers such as AtlantiCare to fire -will employees such as Heather McVey.

The appeals court also pointed out that, as the lower court noted, New Jersey law does not impose liability…

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