Employer restricted the employee to express their feelings in Facebook.

Good day po,

Our salary was delayed for more or less 24 hours, basically, our salary will reflect on our account morning on the 10th of the month and 25th of the month. Now, I posted on Facebook, however, I never mentioned the name of the company, I did not even put in my profile that I am working on the company.

FB post,

Translation in Tagalog: Wala pang sahod (delayed more or less 24 hours) Nag pa Jollibee ang company per dun lang sa mga may TL so kami neto? papalakpak nlang sa kaligayahan nyo?

Prior to posting this, our team did not receive any and we have to wait for our team lead but it was Sunday and no supervisors to assist us no messages left for us, completely hanging.

Now I receive, an NTE (notice of Explanation) that I violated the company policy, damaging the company's reputation or goodwill.

1.) Is this considered as a company violation?
2.) Has the company have the right stopping their employee to post in social media?

Please enlighten me.

1.
Usually company have policies regarding saying or writing some slanderous or libelous things against the the company.

in the case of what you have posted, the company would think that you are besmirching or posting something that might damage the reputation or the image of the company, thus you were handed a notice to explain.

2. the company does not have the right to stop their employees to post in the social media, but they do have the right to take action on what the employee posted against them.

hope this helps.

The company may have deemed your post as libelous, which is misconduct on your part. You can be disciplined for that. https://www.alburovillanueva.com/discipline-suspension-termination