i aaded two differerent articles. one is "amazon fores 3 workers who criticized warehouse conditions" and another is "the cronovirus pendemic is changing work forever"

I want you to explain if Amazon was in the right to fire these employees (explain why or why not). Then explain what rights a worker does have and on what grounds a company can fire an employee for what they said. I also want you to see if the workers were right to criticize Amazon here. For the second article I want you to think about how this virus might change the way you think about work. In what ways will you adjust a job search, the specific company, the type of work, etc. Again if you have any questions please let me know. Los Angeles Times Amazon.com Inc. is hitting back at activists within its own ranks, terminating three employees who criticized working conditions in its warehouses. The retailer confirmed Tuesday that it had fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa for violating company policy. The two employees, who worked at Seattle headquarters, had taken to Twitter recently to voice concerns about the treatment of workers during the coronavirus pandemic; they've also long been involved in an employee campaign urging Amazon to do more to fight climate change. A third employee, Bashir Mohamed, who worked in a warehouse in Minnesota, was also fired. The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News reported earlier on the firings, which took place last week. U.S. senators, labor leaders and some of Amazon's own workers have expressed concern that the company hasn't been doing enough to keep employees safe as coronavirus infection cases pop up in dozens of facilities in the U.S. and Europe, Groups of workers have staged walkouts at Amazon Warehouses in New York, Illinois and Michigan Amazon said the two employees at its headquarters had been fired for violating its policy prohibiting employees from speaking publicly about company matters. "We support every employee's right to criticize their employer's working conditions, but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies," the company said in an emailed statement. We terminated these employees for repeatedly violating internal policies." The company has also defended its work to keep warehouses safe, saying it's following public health guidance to limit employee contact in its facilities and supporting employees diagnosed with the disease. Amazon has offered temporary raises and more lucrative overtime to warehouse employees working during the pandemic. Cunningham and Costa were outspoken leaders in Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. Cunningham, a user-experience designer, spoke on behalf of the group at Amazon's 2019 shareholder meeting. Both were also among the workers who in January defied a stricter Amazon corporate policy on employees speaking in public without authorization. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, called the firings "outrageous on Twitter. Amazon needs to stop retaliating and start making sure employees are safe, working in sanitary conditions with proper protections, he said. Trumka was among the signatories of a letter that leaders of the largest U.S. labor groups, joined by New York elected officials, sent Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos criticizing the company's decision to fire Chris Smalls, who led a walkout at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse. The company said he was terminated for violating a company-ordered quarantine after coming into contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19. Amazon on Tuesday also confirmed it had dismissed Mohamed. Kristen Kish, a company spokeswoman, said Amazon respected his right to protest. This individual was terminated as a result of progressive disciplinary action for inappropriate language, behavior and violating social distancing guidelines." The coronavirus pandemic is changing work forever BY BILL GEORGE April 10, 2020 3:45 PM EDT Each day we are learning ways to adapt to working from home as we social distance and self-quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in the U.S., while many speculate on how long this shutdown will last and when we will return to normal work lives, the reality is that this crisis is permanently changing how we work. There is no going back as the workplace is being reinvented in real time. The pandemic has shown more people they can easily work from home, relying on email, chats, and videoconferencing to quickly communicate with colleagues. Many employees won't return to the office even after the pandemic is under control--and the need for physical workspaces and paper files will decrease. Instead, many more people will work from home, fully wired on mobile phones, laptops, and other devices. Being online all the time will also change the typical workday-eight-hour workdays no longer exist. This requires employees to set clear boundaries, apportioning their family time, personal time, leisure time, and sleeping hours. Otherwise, they risk an unbearable day and decreased quality of life. In other ways, the new work-from-home reality will offer creative ways to form work communities and friendlier relationships with colleagues. Virtual happy hours, more comfortable one-on-one video meetings, and blurred work versus personal identities all increase employees' ability to be authentic and also foster camaraderie. But as employees' work lives have changed, so have the companies themselves, as the pandemic has shown them how to operate more effectively. Revaluing frontline workers Ads by Google Report this ad Why this ad? The pandemic has emphasized the importance of frontline employees, reversing trends of recent decades when businesses focused on decreasing the cost and compensation of their frontline workers. With the onset of COVID- 1623 savid 15267084053 1 Increased use of temporary and part-time workers While tens of millions of people in permanent jobs are being laid off or furloughed, thousands of others are being hired by large firms like Walmart, Amazon, Target, Domino's Pizza, FedEx, and UPS into temporary and part- time jobs due to increased demand as people shift to shopping online and ordering food delivery. While these jobs will lack stability and benefits, they will nevertheless become more common even after the virus is contained. Companies scarred by the response to the pandemic will be reluctant to add full-time roles when they could add flexible roles instead. 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