Question

Employees do not have full freedom of speech when in their workspace.explain

Answer 1

Employees do not have a right to free speech at work, but still the employers need to be aware of federal and state laws that protect workers' speech in certain ceiterias.

The First Amendment guarantees the citizens with a protection of free speech from the intrusion by the federal goverment. The private actors is an area where the the First Amendment does not apply and employers are private actors.

As a result, some of the First Amendment protections are also entailed by the government employees.Thus the constitutional First Amendment right to free speech is not applied to employees working for businesses but only to the government employees.

However this doesn't mean that businesses are allowed to curb all the employee speech. For example,  private-sector employees under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) have the right to engage in concerted activity. This is applicable to workers in union as well as nonunion settings.

The NLRA's main objective is the protection of employees' right to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment. For instance, If the workers discuss their wages with each other or decide they're not being paid enough and seek raises from their employers then they are protected.

The right to talk about possible unlawful conduct in the workplace is also given to the employees. Employees may complain about discrimination, workplace safety violations, harassment, and other issues under various federal laws.

Having said that employees do not have the freedom or evn the right to express a sexist, racist, or other discriminatory comments whereby the comments are violating the laws.