Officer’s ‘Hateful’ Facebook Posts Violated Public Policy, Pennsylvania Panel Rules

(May 2, 2024, 10:20 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Reversing an arbitrator’s award that reinstated a police officer to his position on a university’s patrol, a Pennsylvania appeals court panel on May 1 found that the Facebook posts for which he was fired violated dominant public policy against discrimination, making his termination not without just cause and, therefore, not in violation of the governing collective bargaining agreement (CBA)....