So the traditional answer for these two groups (at least the ones in America) has always been "businesses have the right to fore any employee for any reason".
Now I get the sense that with the massive corporate abuse of power on free speech as well as this subject, opinions may be shifting.
But I am very interested in knowing what people think about this and why.
While I'm not sure I'd call myself either of those, I'm definitely not a leftist either.
Generally, I'm on board with the whole "businesses have the right to fire any employee for any reason" line. I'm also with you in that I don't think they have a right to know, and one regulation I would give to businesses is to limit their ability to pry into personal information of employees. I suppose these conflict with each other in that a business should be able to fire anyone and yet I'm limiting it. That's one of those things I just don't have an answer for. Perhaps some sort of financial penalty based on revenues? Wildly throwing things around here...
Where it gets worse, is holding the "most-free" views on employer rights opens the door for this exact corporatism infested country the US has become. How do I draw the line between free capitalism and letting megacorps choke out competition and then use that same free capitalism to remove freedom? Another thing I don't have an answer for. I know it's not Communism whether "real" or not and it's not letting the current government take over everything. I guess we need a benevolent dictator really.