The newest right-to-work state is also the latest to ban companies from accessing password-protected social media accounts. On Friday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed House Bill 5523, prohibiting employers and educational institutions from asking applicants, employees and students for passwords and other account information used to access private internet and email…
*Do I need a disclaimer? Do I? What a year for The Employer Handbook in 2012! I’m most pleased that, in our second year of existence, readership more than doubled. Although, sadly, the one 2011 reader I had from Papua New Guinea never returned in 2012. I hope she is…
I did one of these posts a few weeks ago, where I wrote about employees getting sacked for a Facebook post and then offered you — the employment lawyers and HR pros — the opportunity to second-guess the termination decision. Giving y’all the chance to weigh in nearly crashed my servers.…
With the National Hockey League season in jeopardy, I imagine that Canadians are a fairly ornery bunch these days. Even further north, hockey fans too are in turmoil. Reports from the North Pole have Mrs. Claus moping around. Morale amongst Santa’s helpers is at an all-time low, causing toy production…
Yesterday, I spent a fun hour hanging out on Twitter with the folks from SHRM’s We Know Next discussing 2012’s HR victories and, then, what lies ahead for you good folks in 2013. A big thank you to SHRM and to those who were able to join us and participate.…
Translation: Recent HR / employment law developments that Meyer missed a/k/a Meyer needs to clear out his folder of bookmarked employment-law items to make room for his dork dorkier Fantasy Baseball bookmarks. Pitchers and catchers report in just over two months. More courts weigh in on social-media discovery issues. “Good news.…
bone·head [bohn-hed] noun a foolish or stupid person; blockhead. This moron! On a business trip, two employees visited the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, where one snapped that photo of the other. Then, the photographed employee posted the picture on her Facebook page. Let’s assume these knuckleheads…
Do you call HR when someone says something you don’t like? What about if they confess a secret? What if you over hear something that wasn’t meant for your ears? And what should HR do about it? Last night, labor-and-employment-law attorney Daniel Schwartz, who blogs at the Connecticut Employment Law…
On Tuesday night, I was in Las Vegas. Kinda. Sorta. Actually, I had the pleasure of participating in a Google+ Hangout for an interactive Q&A on social media topics that took place in Last Vegas from #KronosWorks12. Along with NPR’s Lars Schmidt, Jonathan Brewer, Director of Awesome — yes, that…
To all the haters of social-media policies: If nothing less, the social-media policy reminds employees that if they act the fool online, it may impact their standing in the workplace, and, ultimately, cost them their jobs. Some employees, however, are just so ignorant. Thus, I doubt that any employer policy…