Number55 [CC BY]A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Multiple news outlets are reporting that an employee who received a $5.99 bottle of barbecue sauce from his employer as a…
By POV – Impawards, Link John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. According to multiple reports, among them, this one from Evan Simko-Bednarski and Anna Sturla reporting at CNN,…
Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAt dinner the other night, someone asked me what I did for a living. So, I told that person that I’m a blogger dammit and people respect me for it an employment lawyer. She responded with words to the…
Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay A few weeks ago, the great folks at ERE Media invited me to speak at the ERE Recruiting Conference in Washington, DC about what happens when you learn that one of your recruits has done something on social media that doesn’t mesh well with…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Many of you have Googled or otherwise searched for a job candidate online before extending an official offer. I imagine that there were times that you found something objectionable that caused you to reconsider the offer. But, how many of you have actually gone…
Yesterday, in this blog post, I asked you to take this quiz. That’s the one where you were shown 11 common social media policies and had to decide which ones the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of General Counsel would conclude were lawful. So, how did you do? You did…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5d62b23b089f7a97908b45c1) All right, Einstein. Let’s test your social media policy savvy. Earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of General Counsel issued an advice memorandum addressing your favorite topic: intermittent FMLA leave administration social media policies. (Editor’s Note: I’m pretty sure that social media policies…
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Seaman Barry Riley [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsA white South Carolina firefighter posted threats on Facebook that he would run over Black Lives Matters protesters. The fire department began receiving complaints about these posts. Plus, the posts violated various provisions of the employee handbook.…
By Zuzu – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link I’m typing this post in Las Vegas at the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition. Several years ago, the intersection employee use of social media and HR compliance spawned several sessions on the topic. I should know; I delivered many of…
The owner of a plumbing company fired his son who is accused of urinating on a memorial dedicated to a boy who died from cancer in 2012. That’s according to multiple news reports, including this report from Colt Shaw of the Press of Atlantic City Apparently, a friend recorded the…