Grubhub CEO tells pro-Trump employees to resign

Paragraph 3: &quot;I firmly believe that we must bring together different perspectives...including all genders, races....<i>ideological preferences</i>.&quot;<p>Paragraph 4: &quot;...I and everyone else here at Grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life here in the United States.&quot;<p>Paragraph 5: &quot;If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because <i>you have no place here</i>.&quot;<p>How is this not a severe contradiction?

Analysis by Ken White:<p>Mini-lawsplainer: maybe @Grubhub isn&#x27;t safe with that &quot;resign if you support Trump&#x27;s politics&quot; email after all. &#x2F;1<p>&#x2F;2 Turns out DC is one of a few jurisdictions with a no-firing-based-on-political-affiliation law. Sec. 2-1401.11 beta.code.dccouncil.us&#x2F;dc&#x2F;council&#x2F;cod…<p>&#x2F;3 In fact, under 1-1401.11(4)(B) it&#x27;s specifically illegal to publish a &quot;preference, limitation, specification, or distinction&quot; based on it<p>&#x2F;4 So @Grubhub probably just (1) violated the law and (2) gave a fun free retaliation claim to any Trump supporter they fire or discipline.<p>&#x2F;5 [I&#x27;ll spare you the freedom of association analysis or the hypocrisy-of-talking-about-freedom-of-association analysis]<p>&#x2F;6 In short, @Grubhub, wallow and rant, but do it on your private account. Boss speech has liability issues.<p>&#x2F;7 [Update] For some reason I thought they were in DC. NY and Chicago. Different laws. I&#x27;ll look.

IANAL, but that sounds like a pretty irresponsible email to make public for the CEO of a public company. Is it not?<p>Edit: CEO just posted a clarification. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.grubhub.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;press-release-details&#x2F;2016&#x2F;Inclusion-and-Tolerance-in-the-Workplace&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.grubhub.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;press-release-...</a><p>Getting some pretty bad backlash on Twitter.

He opened the company up to serious liability for discrimination and creating a hostile work environment. Additionally, shareholders damaged by this monumentally stupid action can sue. Class action and employment attorneys are likely searching LinkedIn and other sites for employees emails to contact as I write this, looking for the ~500 or so employees of their 1,000 that are likely affected by this.<p>Hillary lost. Get over it, and (this should be obvious) don&#x27;t tell your employees to resign if they disagree with you.

They absolutely should not turn in their resignations. I work for a state writing unemployment insurance application software. If the CEO wants them out, he needs to lay them off&#x2F;fire them. If the employees hand in their resignation, they are ineligible for benefits. That is what the CEO wants, but that is not what the workers should allow. They are owed unemployment insurance benefits in this case.

Title is wrong. He defined several actions that Trump demonstrated as grounds for immediate termination. He informed all his employees that if they do not follow company hr policies they should resign.

Can anyone confirm if this is real? If it is, this is probably going to turn into a PR disaster for them.

Clickbait title, not exactly what he said.

The email sounds like it was written by someone angry and hurt and desperate to &quot;do something&quot; (the hypothetical &quot;he would have been terminated&quot; is revealing).<p>The actual interpretation of who is being asked to resign is ambiguous.<p>At the least it should be a lesson not to hastily send company-wide emails while gripped by extreme emotions.<p>Agreed the headline here is a bit of click baiting.

previous submission with some comments and more context in the submitted URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12924340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12924340</a> (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;boss-tells-pro-trump-employees-to-resign.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;boss-tells-pro-trump-em...</a>)

campaigning is different than normal work, all the politics promise something just to gain votes and it&#x27;s not different from all the other years. like Obama promised change but America just sank into more problems, even with the NSA &quot;the program&quot; he did not do anything about it and even lied to the public concealing it. I would look at the speeches and interview what he gives before and after the campaign it&#x27;s totally different, and i think if Hilary gained the power America would just be more corrupt if anything even change while trump is president. i doubt it but i would rather see this positive.

Source? I&#x27;d like to share this but don&#x27;t want to spread disinformation.

Whoa.