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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Federal employment counsel here.

HR would probably come to me for a legal opinion.  Federal employees have First Amendment rights that the government (acting as their employer) cannot violate except in certain situations.  While I haven't researched this issue and this post isn't a legal opinion, I don't believe that this employee could be instructed to put away his Confederate Flag cube and I also don't believe it's an EEO violation.  It alone without more does not create a hostile work environment.

None of that means that other employees or his manager could not encourage him to be more thoughtful, inclusive, or considerate about his choices.  But I suspect that is a non-starter.  Federal employees are a diverse group and it is his choice to decorate his cubicle, within certain limitations.  I don't believe that, legally, he has exceeded those limitations.[/quote]

This makes sense but wasn't there an EEOC case on exactly this topic that was decided just a few weeks ago that displaying the Gadsen flag could be considered a hostile work environment and a few years ago that wearing confederate flag t shirts was also hostile?[/quote]

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