Denver Woman Gets Fired For Sharing TikTok On How She Got Her Salary Increased

Lexi Larson, a Denver resident, has many videos on her TikTok account detailing how she was able to increase her income from the $70,000 she had been promised to $90,000 at her new tech position.

An employee of a computer business in Denver posted videos on TikTok to announce her $20,000 wage raise. However, the company later fired her after learning about the recordings.

In a TikTok video posted in June, Lexi Larson claimed that after finding a job in the tech sector, her compensation had increased from $70,000 at a marketing agency to $90,000. Before and after the video, she posted on the platform about her spending habits and how she acquired the new job.

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But Larson says that after her company found her TikTok account, she began deleting videos to try to avoid angering her bosses. According to USA Today, she was aware her right to discuss her salary was federally protected by the National Labor Relations Act but still decided to take them down.

In the same video announcing her dismissal, she was fired two weeks after being recruited. Larson claimed, "TikTok cost me my job."

She added, "Two days later, after they talked to me about my TikTok account, they did end up firing me because they said me having this account was a security concern."

Can an employee be dismissed from their work if they discuss their salaries?

Employees have the right to talk with coworkers and others about their pay, as stated by the US National Labor Relations Act. Additionally, as reported by USA Today, it is illegal for employers to reprimand, retaliate against, threaten, or monitor employees for having such conversations.

The National Labor Relations Board advised, however, that "while using electronic communications, such as social media, keep in mind that your employer may have prohibitions prohibiting using their equipment."

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Larson told her 33,000 followers at the end of her video announcing her termination that she had returned to her previous position as an account manager after crying on the phone with it.

More than a million people have watched the said video.