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Employee Rights Case Study

For seven years, Sharon Lopez had worked for ExtremeNet, a well-known, global high-technology company that provides clients with Internet services such as e-commerce and Web development, online marketing, strategic planning, and research. Sharon was well paid and performed well in a responsible middle-management position, which she found rewarding. However, as ExtremeNet struggled to manage the effects of an economic downturn, Sharon became disenchanted with the company's treatment of lower-level employees, including her own assistant. Among Sharon's concerns were gender and age discrimination during layoffs, as well as changes to personnel policies that she believed treated lower-level employees unfairly.

Sharon's frustrations grew after she raised her concerns in vain with her superiors. What she did next put her career in jeopardy: Working at home over several weekends, Sharon created and published on the Internet a satiric website that inveighed against the abusive management practices of a fictional company that bore a striking resemblance to ExtremeNet. The site gained some notoriety among high-tech websites and in the business press.

The upper management of ExtremeNet was incensed to learn of the site's existence and was dismayed and concerned that the site generated so much traffic and publicity. Although Sharon protested that she acted out of a sense of justice and asserted that her creative work was protected by her first amendment rights, this did not prevent the executives of ExtremeNet from hastily assembling an emergency meeting to decide whether Sharon Lopez should be discharged, and whether ExtremeNet should file suit to have her satirical website removed from the World Wide Web.

Any suggestions?????? Robin?????????

Assumptions have to be made considering there really isn't all that much info to this. So assumptions are okay. So far, I am questiong loyalty between company and employee; what are the halfway standards? Does it go both ways?