Kritikrätt : Arbetstagarens kritikrätt på sociala medier

Between a worker and an employer there is a relationship that builds on loyalty. This requirement of loyalty means that the worker should not do anything that could harm the employer. This could lead to limitations in the workers right to express themself. In todys society social media is a big part of peoples life. Within the public sector there is freedom of speech accordning to the Constitution of Sweden, this does not apply for the privat sector. For workers within the private sector there is the right to critisise as an incentive to the demand of loyalty. The purpose of the thesis is to review the right to critisise and its relationship with the demand of loyalty. The method for the thesis is legal dogmatic method. The result of the thesis is that the the right to critisise has four evaluation criterias, the critieras are that the employer has to bring the criticism internal, the purpose with the criticism, if the worker has a position of trust and if the worker has followed the reprimand they have been given by the employer. This shows that the worker can go public with criticism if the purpose is to highlight anomalys at the workplace, but first the criticism has to go through the employer. This means a limitation in a workers acting on social medias. By courtcases you can see a problem with the lack of knowledge about what a worker can write on social media. You can also see a problem for temporary employees who writes on social media about their work