That is a very interesting question. You really need to speak with some employment lawyers.
Free speach of civil servants has limitations. A laeyer will want to confidentially examine whether your post was regarding a matter of public concern and possibly more importantly whether you spoke as a private citizen or whether your speech concerned matters which were within your wheelhouse.
There are cases out there where police officers or school principals air the dirty laundry of their own departments in public and that is often off limits. But if those persons discuss matters of great public concern, maybe that they are forced to work in a "sick building" and that affects not just the speaker/employee but everyone in the building and they have no control over the building since it is leased from some 3rd party, that might be a matter of great public concern for which they are speaking as a public citizen would and not just for themselves as a disgruntled employee might.
Civil servant free speech is not unlimited and you need a lawyer who can dig deeply into what was posted and how that posting made the speech that of a private citizen over the public concern, if it did? Private employees don't have such protections regarding their own employers unless they are attempting to unionize or discuss terms and conditions of employment on their own time. Other speech regarding private employers by their employees might breach duties of loyalty or master servant doctrine which are good law in common law jurisdictions.
Answered on Sep 04th, 2020 at 5:45 AM