Sure, I could have used today’s post to address yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision about EEOC conciliation efforts. But this is The Employer Handbook. It’s not like I just got the call up to the major leagues. By now, my blog game is hella-strong, yo! I troll sites like TMZ and…
I can’t blame you if last month’s decision from the National Labor Relations Board, left you asking the question: “Are there no limits to what employees can get away with on social media?” The Board decision, in case you missed it, reinstated an employee who went on Facebook and called his boss a “NASTY MOTHER…
[WARNING: This post has some VERY foul language. Although the National Labor Relations Board may tolerate it, many of you may be offended]. By now, all of us have read the articles, which claim that the law permits your employees to complain about work on social media … and keep…
Your company has set up a private LinkedIn Group. Your company, which controls who may become a member of the Group, has seen the number of Group members swell to nearly 700. Way to go! Because it’s a private group, the names of all of the group members are not generally available…
This “invasion of privacy” question is the lynchpin of a new lawsuit from two former employees of one of the largest beer companies in the world. The complaint (available here), which began in state court, has been removed to federal court in New Jersey. David Gialanella, reporting for the New Jersey…
By now, we all must have a great story. Maybe it’s about a co-worker. Or more likely, something we read online — probably on this blog. Each of us knows about someone who, in a single careless tweet, status update, or selfie . . . lost their job. A little…
Or, as a glass-half-full kinda guy, maybe it was a good idea for an Ohio school bus driver to take a selfie on the bus holding an unopened beer bottle to her lips and post it to Facebook. She lost her job, but, I get a blog post with great SEO potential…
I am a true Twitter OG. Why, I remember back in the day — it was 2009 — when Connor Riley, a/k/a ‘Cisco Fatty’ a/k/a @theconnor tweeted: “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San…
Wait, seriously? Yep. No employee of the State of South Carolina will be allowed to use social media on the job, “unless specifically required by the agency to perform a job function.” More on this law, and reaction from a leading blogger (not me), after the jump… * * *…
You know all that stuff you read on the internet about employees who can badmouth their boss on the internet, all in the name of free speech, and not get fired for it…. Yeah, about that… [More after the jump…] * * * Here’s a recent opinion from the Fifth…