Luis Padilla, the Cargill employee in Harrisonburg who was fired for posting a sign — “Please Vote for Marriage on November 7th” — in his pickup truck, has been given his job back. According to DNR Online:
The company is … expected to issue a new policy on employee expression on Monday that will allow Padilla to display the sign that led to his dismissal. “We haven’t seen the actual policy yet,” Wesley Carter, manager of Cargill’s Timberville plant said in the joint announcement, “but we are confident that under it, Mr. Padilla’s sign would not have been a problem.
“This was all a big misunderstanding,” Carter said in the statement. “After reviewing all of the facts surrounding this case, we are satisfied that Mr. Padilla did everything in his power to comply with our requests and that there was no insubordination on his part.”
Cargill did the right thing. I’ll probably vote against the marriage amendment, but that doesn’t mean I think that Padilla should have been fired for expressing his pro-amendment views in the way he did.