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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Assuming the person is actually gay (and not a 'friend'), firing would be a very poor idea - I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out why.
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I'm not sure, you can't fire them for being gay, but unless they have vacation days left you can fire them for skipping work.
If someone called me and said "I'm not coming to work today, I'm gay." my response would be "Come to work right now or you will be gay and unemployed."
You can't fire them for being gay, and clearly you aren't since they aren't turning gay or coming out on Wednesday. Presumably anyone who would do this everyone in their office already knew they were gay. You set the work schedule though, and being gay isn't a legitimate reason to skip work, even if some movement says you should do it.
This could be a problem in states like California which have passed laws banning firings in retaliation for participating in political demonstrations, but there are very few of these states.
Here's a memo from an employment law firm about the legal issues surrounding disciplining workers who missed work for the immigration walkouts:
http://www.littler.com/PressPublicat...ents/13950.pdf
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