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#SHRM14: Let’s grab coffee (you’re buying)

And by coffee, I mean turkey legs and frozen blueberry-mango rum lemonade. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down… You see that badge over there? You know what I had to do to get that badge?Buy the full version of Photoshop Spike the Kool-Aid of everyone on the SHRM Annual Conference Speaker…

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A lawyer is literally starving himself to raise awareness for social media firings

Meet Delaware lawyer, Brian Zulberti. According to his website, back in 2013, after getting his DE bar license, Mr. Zulberti emailed every Delaware lawyer asking for information about job openings. In each email, he included this photo of himself in a sleeveless t-shirt. Mr. Zulberti claims that this mass email,…

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Dust off that resume when your students really “like” that Facebook post of your face on a beer label

Why, just last week, I was saying that the Facebook stupidity scale had shifted away from teachers in favor of bar/tavern staff. I stand corrected. For future reference, you can never go wrong with Vining the one-year-old slugger. Image Credit: Facebook

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For the love of God, bar owners! Train your employees not to liken beer to domestic violence.

  I used to say that teachers were the most irresponsible Facebook user group. Now, I’m leaning towards the bar and nightclub industry. Last month, a worker at a downtown Philadelphia bar displayed a Heineken chalkboard with the message “I like my beer like I like my violence… domestic.” to…

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Two more states just made it illegal for employers to demand social media passwords

Within the past week, two states have passed laws, which will provide employees with more workplace protections. Truth be told, I wasn’t sure that the internet had yet arrived in either Oklahoma or Louisiana, the latter of which is still controlled by a French monarch, I’m fairly certain. (But since…

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Tennessee has a social media workplace privacy law now, y’all

Here are some Tennessee fun facts: The city of Kingston served as Tennessee’s state capital for one day (September 21, 1807) There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in the union.…

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This is one badass labor and employment law roundtable

Recently, several local lawyers and I participated in a labor and employment law roundtable for The Legal Intelligencer. Actually, the table was rectangular. But, the coffee and muffins were free, so I didn’t complain. Well, not until I dropped my pants and mooned the employee-rights lawyers on the panel. Trust…

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A 79-year-old teacher was fired for refusing to unfriend her students on Facebook

A teacher getting in trouble for something having to do with Facebook? You don’t say… The full story, plus another state has passed a social media workplace privacy law. I’ve got it all for you after the jump… * * * I was going to blog today about Wisconsin becoming…

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Wages aren’t confidential, you guys. Your employees can discuss them.

Over the past several years, seemingly, we’re seen the NLRB take a more active interest in employee handbooks. We’ve certainly seen it with respect to social media policies; especially, where these policies purport to limit the rights of employees to discuss their employment with one another. This is because Section…