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I have trained you well. We’re gonna cut the ropes to let you fight Tong Po.
(Maybe, going with a random Kickboxer reference wasn’t the best metaphor for this audience.)
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Articles Posted in Mobile Device
Can you legally fire an employee who butt-dials you while talking smack about the company?
Taken with a selfie stick and way too much effort.
Easy there, folks. My servers can only handle so much traffic on a Thursday. Continue reading
Should it be unlawful to make employees check work email after hours? Some in NYC Council think so.
Image Credit: “cell phone zombies-1215” by jseliger2 on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/14048254183)
Woo boy! I’m sure that none of you have any strong opinions about this one.
None whatsoever. 😁
How will the new overtime rules affect workplace flexibility? Not well.
The slow death of the 9-5 workday, together with the arrival of the new FLSA overtime rules, which do into effect on December 1, could create one of the bigger wage-and-hour pitfalls for employers in 2017 and beyond.
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Teacher resigns after male student takes her unlocked phone, shares her nude selfie on social media.
Fortunately for me, my cell phone is locked. And, the most salacious contents are in a Dropbox full of employment-discrimination cases. Yes, I own the dorkiest cell phone ever. Don’t judge.
Is it against the law to remote wipe an employee’s Candy Crush high score?
Replace Candy Crush high score with email contacts on a personal iPhone used for work (BYOD), and you have the issue that a federal court in Texas recently tackled.
The answer follows after the jump…
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Survey underscores gap in employer/employee BYOD privacy expectations
According to a recent survey from MobileIron, more than 4 in 5 employees in the US, UK, and Germany use their personal mobile phone or tablet for work. However, only 30% trust that their employer won’t go snooping into personal information on that device. But nearly the same percentage, 28%, take comfort in their belief that their employer can’t view corporate email sent and received on their personal device.
[In unrelated news, 28% of your workforce is dumber than these two.]
Ultimately, MobileIron concluded that employees consistently underestimate the visibility their employers have into company data, and consistently overestimate the visibility their employers have into personal data.
GUEST POST: The Budding Burden of BYOD – Legal Issues Abound
Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Shannon Dorvall. Shannon is a practicing Los Angeles criminal attorney. She is a graduate of the University of Montana law school, and has argued cases in front of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. When she isn’t writing about law or actually practicing it, Shannon enjoys perfecting her cooking and catching up with a good book
(Want to guest blog at The Employer Handbook? Email me).