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At least that’s what Elon Musk, the billionaire who purchased X (formerly known as Twitter), posted from his X account on Saturday night. Continue reading
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A step-by-step guide on how to go from semi-pro hockey player to unemployed in just a few tweets.
It’s 2023.
When are employees going to learn that while the First Amendment does guarantee freedom of speech, there is no constitutional right to a job, and employers don’t have to tolerate employee hate speech?
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Fired an employee for violating a social media policy, did you? You may have to pay their credit card debt and mortgage payments.
On Friday’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour — catch the replay here if you missed it — we talked about 2022 changes in the law that could impact 2023 updates to your employee handbook. One talked briefly about how the pendulum at the National Labor Relations Board is swinging back toward employee rights.
What I failed to mention was that, with that shift, the Board is taking an aggressive position on how employers — union or not — may have to make employees whole for violations of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”). Continue reading
Hey, they never said we couldn’t post TikToks transporting the dead bodies
Well, that’s not exactly what your employees should think if you operate a mortuary transport service. Continue reading
What should we say to our employees about Roe v. Wade?
Over the weekend, I read this Reddit post. It’s from an individual who says the company will require employees to attend a pro-life celebration today following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Healthcare CEO gets fired after viral TikTok video altercation with a boy in a red dress, sues Kathy Griffin.
I’ll take “blog post titles that I never thought I’d be using in 2022 ever” for $500. Continue reading
Read this before you go ham on employees who badmouth your company online.
I’m not sure if we are still in the middle of the “Great Resignation,” the “Great Renegotiation,” or something else entirely. I am sure, however, that I could go for a great piece of coconut cream pie right now.
Additionally, I know that among life’s certainties are death, taxes, and employees complaining about their jobs. And those complaints are usually filed on social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit.
I understand that your company may be inclined to take matters into its own hands when employees complain on social media about work by, err, “facilitating” their exit from the company. But before you hand out any pink slips, read this post. Continue reading
It’s 2022. Time for an employee handbook update. Start by adding the word “TikTok.”
A little over five years ago, TikTok, the social networking platform where users post videos ranging in length from 15 seconds to three minutes, was born. Now, I know that it’s hard to keep up with technology. But if your employee handbook doesn’t specifically reference TikTok — and I’m not just talking about your social media policy — then you, or your employees, or perhaps both, are looking for trouble.
Just ask a former flight attendant for a major airline. Continue reading
How much social media discovery can you get from an employee who sues you for discrimination?
Ibrahim.ID, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
It depends. (Sorry).
But, for added context, I love this quote from a recent Maryland federal court opinion: Continue reading
Join me and special guest Dan Schwartz (!!!) at Noon ET today on Zoom for The Employer Handbook Office Hour
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
It’s week 98 of quarantine, many of you are working from home, and the boss isn’t around.
So, you’ve got really got no excuse to miss The Employer Handbook Office Hour today on Zoom at Noon ET, for which you can still register here before it fills up. Continue reading