What Does Citizens United Mean for the Workplace?
Few recent Supreme Court decisions have provoked such heated debate as Citizens United v. FEC, which undermined federal restrictions on corporate and union contributions to political campaigns. Despite all of the discussion of Citizens United, little attention has been paid to the decision’s implications for the workplace. In a new paper on SSRN, however, Paul Secunda argues that Citizens United may have the effect of lifting some longstanding restrictions on the ability of employers to communicate political messages to their employees. Paul argues for a statutory response that would prohibit the termination of employees for refusing to attend political meetings at the workplace.
Paul’s paper, entitled “Addressing Political Captive Audience Workplace Meetings in the Post-Citizens United Environment,” appeared in the Yale Law Journal Online here. The abstract appears after the jump.