US worker sacked for criticism on Facebook

NEW YORK - In what has been called a ground-breaking case, the United States National Labour Relations Board has accused a company of illegally sacking an employee after she criticised her supervisor on her Facebook page.

The case involves employee Dawnmarie Souza, 42, who had to prepare a response to a customer's complaint about her work.

Ms Souza, the board said, was unhappy that her supervisor would not let a representative of her union to help prepare her response.

Ms Souza then mocked her supervisor on Facebook, "love how the company allows a 17 to become a supervisor". "17" is the company's lingo for a psychiatric patient.

Mr Jonathan Kreisberg, director of the United States National Labour Relations Board's Hartford office said: "You're allowed to talk about your supervisor with your co-workers ... The only difference in this case is she did it on Facebook and did it on her own time and her own computer."

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