Sean Senzeni is a 2023 graduate of Georgia Tech who recently…
Sean Senzeni is a 2023 graduate of Georgia Tech who recently started a job at Tiger Security in Austin, Texas. Sean received an employee manual on the first day of work at the cybersecurity support center, which is unionized. Being a detail-oriented Georgia Tech graduate, Sean reads the entire manual. The manual is explicit that the company will monitor all emails in a person’s official work account. Sean learns from the manual that the company promises not to read any emails accessed at work that originate in an account other than the official work account. Based on these statements in the manual, Sean regularly checks his personal email accounts at work. After a month with Tiger Security, Sean realizes that the company is failing to pay its workers overtime as required by federal law. After this discovery, the topics of Sean’s personal emails change from general updates to complaints about working conditions at Tiger Security. After two months of working for Tiger Security, Sean is fired. Sean believes that his personal emails led to his termination. If Sean is correct, does Sean have a strong case that he should not have been fired?