The recent firing of a Yelp employee after she criticized her CEO in a blog post—a post that the company conceded was “an important example of freedom of speech”—raises the question of whether that freedom should have protected the worker from being discharged.
Late last week, Yelp customer service agent Talia Jane wrote an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman on the blog-publishing platform Medium. She complained that wages were so low in her division that she had to spend most of her money on rent in the high-priced San Francisco Bay area and often went hungry.
