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Social media firings, anti-union contracts, and corporate surveillance: are employers our biggest threat to free speech?
Josh Bornstein, the employment lawyer who represents Antoinette Lattouf in her case against the ABC (as well as various union clients), argues that individual liberty is under threat.
He brings the experience of his profession, and its methodical attention to detail, to his assessment of how corporations knowingly and wilfully force their workers to surrender their rights to free speech in exchange for paid employment. Closer to home, journalist Antoinette Lattouf, whose parents came to Australia from Lebanon as refugees in the 1970s, had her contract with the ABC cut short in 2023 because of a post she made on social media about the war in Gaza. Bornstein writes: “In 2020, Canada’s Supreme Court found the clause to be ‘unconscionable’, and declared the contract void based on the inequality of bargaining power between the parties and the cost of arbitration.”
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