Will I be fired if I speak ill of a company on social media

Lawyer Thai Lam Ngoc, YouMe Law Firm LLC, replied:

Article 125 of the 2019 Labor Code stipulates: Disciplinary action against dismissal shall be applied by employers in the following cases:

1. Workers who commit acts of theft, embezzlement, gambling, intentional injury, and drug use at the workplace;

2. Employees who disclose business secrets, technology secrets, infringe upon the intellectual property rights of employers, cause serious damage or threaten to cause particularly serious damage to the employer's assets and interests or cause sexual harassment at the workplace as prescribed in the labor regulations;

3. Employees who are disciplined for extending the salary increase or dismissal period but re-offend before the disciplinary action is abolished. Repeat violations are cases where employees repeat disciplinary violations that have been disciplined but have not been cleared according to the provisions of Article 126 of this Code;

4. Employees who arbitrarily quit their jobs for 05 accumulated days within 30 days or 20 accumulated days within 365 days from the first day of voluntary leave without a legitimate reason.

Cases considered to have a legitimate reason including natural disasters, fires, sick individuals and relatives must be confirmed by competent medical examination and treatment facilities and other cases specified in the labor regulations.

Thus, if a person who defams the company on social networks causes serious damage or or threatens to cause particularly serious damage to the company's assets and interests and this behavior is clearly stipulated in the company's labor regulations and is subject to disciplinary action in the form of dismissal, the company has the right to fire you according to the provisions of labor law.