{"id":6249,"date":"2022-05-20T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/20\/meta-tells-employees-to-stop-discussing-abortion-at-work\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:21:42","slug":"meta-tells-employees-to-stop-discussing-abortion-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/05\/20\/meta-tells-employees-to-stop-discussing-abortion-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta tells employees to stop discussing abortion at work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/19\/23131714\/meta-ban-abortion-discussion-at-work-facebook-workplace-roe-v-wade<\/a>
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A Meta executive told employees on Thursday that they are prohibited from talking about abortion on Workplace, an internal version of Facebook, citing \u201can increased risk\u201d that the company is seen as a \u201chostile work environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policy, which Meta put in place in 2019 but hasn\u2019t been reported until now, prohibits employees from discussing \u201copinions or debates about abortion being right or wrong, availability or rights of abortion, and political, religious, and humanitarian views on the topic,\u201d according to a section of the company\u2019s internal \u201cRespectful Communication Policy\u201d seen by The Verge<\/em>. Some employees have called on management to do away with the policy in the aftermath of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>, arguing that the ban is at odds with employees being allowed to talk \u201crespectfully\u201d about issues like Black Lives Matter, immigration, and trans rights.<\/p>\n

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