No way, Heisenberg is gonna be cool with this. Not a chance. Earlier this month, New Mexico joined Maryland, Illinois, California, Michigan, and Utah, by becoming the sixth state to pass a law, which makes it unlawful for an employer to request or require that a prospective employee fork…
While some people; namely, hockey players with local ties, use Twitter to congratulate an ex-wife on end of divorce payments, others spew venom about their bosses. I know. I should have warned you to sit down first. Let me know when the shock subsides. K-thx. And the latest 15-minutes-of-fame, there’s-an-app-for-that, spotlight…
I’m a little late to the game on this case (Gatto v. United Airlines). It’s about a personal injury case in which the defendant sought discovery of a the plaintiff’s Facebook page. Yadda, yadda, yadda, plaintiff deletes his Facebook page and the court sanctions the plaintiff. But here’s the part…
Welcome citizens of the Utah. I’d say welcome back, but, according my blog stats, so few of you have seen my blog a first time. How could that be? Some of my best posts involve the Beehive State: “144 ‘N’-words, but black employees can’t prove they were offended“ “Fifth of…
For much of the week, I’ve blogged about Adria Richards, the employee who got fired for tweeting complaints about discrimination. On Monday, I offered my legal analysis (here). On Tuesday, I followed that up with this simple poll that purported to remove the law from the equation: Was the decision…
Whew! Got a little carried away with yesterday’s post about the employee who got fired for tweeting complaints about discrimination, didn’t I? Then again, I’m not the one who came up with the hashtag #donglegate. Yesterday, I offered my legal analysis. Today, I want your non-legal opinion: SendGrid’s decision to fire…
Is this Retaliation 2.0? Two weeks ago, Adria Richards attended an industry conference at which she overheard sexual jokes from two attendees sitting behind her during a session. So, she complained…on Twitter: Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way and “big” dongles.Right behind me #pycon twitter.com/adriarichards/… — Adria…
Your social media policy may be good when it comes to addressing legal risks. But getting that message across to your employees… Not so much, according to a recent survey from Protiviti (here). The Protiviti survey shows that more businesses are addressing employee use of social media — 57% of…
On March 12, a federal court in PA resolved the first HUGE LinkedIn account dispute case involving an employee and former employer. I’ve written about out it a few times previously. (Here, here,and here). The latest decision is involved. And rather than pontificate — too many syllables — I’ll defer…
Philadelphia may be poised now to follow in the footsteps of other states and municipalities that have passed similar laws to regulate what appears to be a non-existent problem. I’ll lay it out for you after the jump… * * * This proposed amendment to Title 9 of The…