11 categories of workers who are better off cleaning their social media pages

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

While one law prohibits dismissal for opinion, a series of others regulate who should filter content when publishing on the Internet.

1. Official

Municipal and civil servants should be more careful in their statements. According to the law, they cannot publicly assess the activities of government agencies and their leaders, including decisions of higher authorities and departments where they themselves work.

An exception is made only for those who are supposed to tell what is happening in the unit - press secretaries, for example. But even this should hardly be taken as a permission for negative reviews.

Violation of the law is a reason to terminate a contract with an official. Thus, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Sergey Belyakov was fired after he condemned the freezing of the funded part of the pension for 2015. On his Facebook page, he apologized for officials not keeping their word.

In addition, municipal and civil servants are required to report on their accounts on the Internet annually by April 1, if there is data there that allows the identity of the writer to be identified. And upon receipt of a job, the activity on the Internet for the three previous years is analyzed.

2. Serviceman

With regard to bans, the same restrictions apply to military personnel as to civil servants. Therefore, for criticizing the leadership, you can lose your place.

3. Educator

In the Labor Code, there are several grounds for dismissing employees at the request of the employer, including for immoral behavior, but only for employees whose activities have an educational function. We are talking about teachers, kindergarten teachers, teachers of additional education for children and adults.

The concept of "immoral offense incompatible with continuing to work" is very vague. The final decision remains with the head of the organization.

A teacher can be fired for almost anything: for a photo in a swimsuit, for confessing to investing his own money in renovating a classroom and asking for help, for outrage at injustice. Therefore, teachers, like no one else, know that silence is golden.

4. Judge

The Code of Judicial Ethics says that a judge "must follow high standards of morality and ethics, avoid anything that could diminish the authority of the judiciary and damage the reputation of a judge." For its violation, the servant of Themis risks losing his position.

In practice, judges have already been deprived of their authority for photos with feet on the table or with a bottle of vodka.

Chairman of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation Viktor Momotov warned his colleagues that it is necessary to follow not only the content, but also who you add as friends, whom you like and so on.

5. Lawyer

Lawyers, like judges, have their own Code of Professional Ethics. He prescribes "in all circumstances to preserve the honor and dignity inherent in the profession." At the same time, the law and morality should be in priority over the wishes of the client. One of the measures for violating the Code is the deprivation of the status of a lawyer.

For example, they can be punished for obscenities or "indiscriminate criticism of the judicial system."

6. FSB officer

It does not matter what position a person holds in the Federal Security Service: he is forbidden to publish anything that hints at his place of work, points to colleagues, reveals what the department is doing. All of this is top secret. Moreover, you can even indicate your personal data only if the head of the FSB authorizes it.

7. Prosecutor

Prosecutors should be guided by the law on civil servants when making public statements.

8. Officer of the Investigative Committee

Investigators are also subject to prohibitions in the civil service law. So it's better to keep silent about work and you certainly shouldn't criticize your bosses.

9. Policeman

They can be deprived of a shoulder strap for a defamatory offense, including for the publication of a dubious post.

Moreover, it is better to follow not only the content, but also the comments of friends under the posts. If comrades mention hangovers, bad habits or inappropriate behavior, it will not lead to anything good.

10. An employee of a company with a local code of ethics

According to the Labor Code, they can be dismissed for repeated non-performance by an employee of labor duties, if he already has a disciplinary penalty. The reasons for imposing such a penalty are often spelled out in internal documents - job descriptions and the code of corporate ethics.

This is possible only if the employee is familiar with local acts, which is confirmed by his signature.

11. Employee with security clearance

Any position can be dismissed for disclosing state, commercial, official secrets, if this information became known in the course of work. So be careful with company records.

What else to pay attention to

The Labor Code prohibits discrimination on any grounds. This means that no one should be fired for expressing their opinion on social media, even if the post looks morally questionable. But the employer has other ways to say goodbye to an unwanted employee - both relatively honest and quite insidious.

For example, the press wrote a lot about the fact that Aeroflot fired a flight attendant for an inappropriate post on Twitter. In fact, the labor contract was actually terminated, but by agreement of the parties. And already from the name it is clear that both the employer and the employee must agree to this measure. The latter most often receives compensation in this case.

If an employee becomes a highly unwanted member of the workforce, company management can also do the following:

• cut the position;
• admit that the employee does not correspond to the position (in practice, this is almost impossible due to the complexity of the procedure);
• provoke the fact of violation of labor duties (for example, give an unofficial day off without a corresponding order, and then consider the absence from the workplace as absenteeism) and dismiss "under the article";
• pay only a salary if it is an insignificant part of the salary until the employee leaves himself.

To counter all this, you should collect evidence, look for witnesses and go to court.