610 CKTB – Fired for Being a White Supremacist

An Arizona man is out of a job after posting an admittedly “tasteless joke” about driving through a crowd of protesters at President Donald Trump’s rally in Phoenix on Tuesday.

James Cobo lost his job at West Valley Tires in Buckeye one day after posting on Facebook that he couldn’t wait to “drive through” the crowd of protesters, the Arizona Republic reports.

Can an employee be fired for cause because of their political views, or because an employer believes that they are a white supremacist? Chantel Goldsmith, partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, joined host Larry Fedoruk on Newstalk 610 CKTB, where the Toronto Employment Lawyer discussed employee rights were politics is concerned.