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The Employer Handbook BlogGrab your popcorn. We need to talk about this Bryan Colangelo Twitter burner-account bombshell.
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HR lessons from Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and ABC’s immediate cancellation of her show
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On the same day that Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores to train its employees on implicit bias (full curriculum here), an outspoken Hollywood celebrity stole the headlines with an explicitly-racist tweet. Continue reading
Remember the woman fired for flipping off the Trump motorcade? Now, she’s suing.
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Remember that time one of your employees:
- rode her bike,
- passed the President’s motorcade,
- was photographed giving him the middle finger, and
- became a national celebrity/spectacle (depending on your point of view)?
For an employee of a Virginia GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR (oops!), it resulted in her termination of employment late last year. (More on that here.)
As I say a silent prayer to the blogging gods, read on as I discuss the lawsuit the cyclist just filed against her former employer and offer some practical advice for employers. Continue reading
Two more learn the hard way that off-the-clock social media use can be a job killer
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When will people learn?
(Although, if they do, I’ll have less about which to blog.)
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Do your employees understand the limits of their freedom of speech? If not, educate them.
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Do your employees appreciate that what they do on social media on their own time can cost them their job?
Do your employees think that “freedom of speech” can save them from getting fired? Continue reading
An employee’s bad tweets lead New York Times to fire her on the same day it announced her hiring.
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Would you fire an employee for something she posted on Facebook … back in high school?
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HR to Vietnamese job applicant, ‘If you no speak English, I will send you home’
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Go ahead and pull those old employee handbooks out of the trash!
Just be sure to wipe off the coffee grounds.
And cross out all of those outdated references to MySpace and Friendster in the social media policy. Continue reading
Court stymies employer’s try for plaintiff’s social media passwords in sexual harassment case. But, it did get…
I imagine that, among the reasons that victims fear complaining about sexual harassment, is that spotlight may shine a little too brightly on them.
For example, when a plaintiff in a Title VII case claims emotional distress from sexual harassment, the source(s) of that pain will be under the microscope. Questioning on this issue could spill into the plaintiff’s social media activities.
But how far will a court allow this to go? Continue reading