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The Employer Handbook BlogHow to curse out your boss on Facebook … and get away with it!
It’s easier than you think. Indeed, a recent decision from the National Labor Relations Board bears this out.
Details after the jump…
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Articles Posted in Social Media and the Workplace
New Hampshire becomes the latest state to pass a social media workplace law
And I’m speaking today on social media in the workplace at the 2014 EEOC Excel Conference
Everything’s coming up Milhouse.
More on the former (and a little about the latter) after the jump…
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Inappropriate Facebook videos, comments doom an employee’s discrimination claims
On the clock or off, when employees do dumb stuff on Facebook, it could cost them their jobs. And, apparently, their discrimination claims against their former employer too.
Yep, another employee screwed up online. Go figure.
More on that after the jump…
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Disclosing an employee’s medical info on Facebook is hella-stupid
Plus, it may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act too.
How one company’s alleged blunder turned into an ADA lawsuit and a blog post at https://www.theemployerhandbook.com…after the jump…
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Court: No First Amendment right for teacher to trash students online
Welcome to The Employer Handbook.
Extending the fifteen minutes of fame of a trash-talking blogger/teacher by a 300 word blog post.
After the jump…
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Survey reveals the top social media faux pas that doom job applicants
Call it a cheap way to increase my SEO — Kim Kardashian Justin Bieber love child — but I’m ending the week the way I started it: with another social media post.
Come you moths to my social media flame.
Ha Ha! Made you listen to The Bangles! Good luck getting that song out of your head. Maybe this will help. #Sike
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, err, social media and the workplace
Work with me here folks:
- Late last month, I had intended to blog about this Idaho case, in which a nurse was denied unemployment compensation benefits because of a threatening Facebook post. But, Molly DiBianca at the Delaware Employment Law Blog beat me to it. You can check out her post here.
- Speaking of Idaho, that’s right next to Montana, where you’ll find the City of Bozeman. Ah yes, the City of Bozeman, the poster child for why states have enacted laws protecting employees from having to disclose social media logins and passwords. And the latest state to do so is Rhode Island. You — yeah, you there in Providence — can view a copy of the new law here.
Why employee use of social media “off the clock” may still impact your workplace
A few weeks, ago I was speaking about social media and the workplace to a fabulous audience at the 2014 SHRM Annual Conference and Expo. (Email me if you want a copy of my slidedeck).
One of my session themes was that there is no such thing as employees using social media “off the clock.” That is, even if an individual tweets or updates her Facebook status outside of the four walls of the workplace, that communication can still impact the workplace.
Dan Davis at IBM Social Business recently blogged about this, and another Twitter user described it as the “24/7 social media conundrum” Two recent incidents described below bear this out.
Score? US Men’s Soccer’s permission slip so your employees can miss work today
I remember a high school classmate of mine who had his mom send in a permission slip to excuse him from missing school for the Philadelphia Phillies’ home opener. Mom’s note indicated that her son was suffering from “Vernal Flu.”
Get it? Vernal Flu = Spring Fever.
Pretty creative, huh?
Survey reveals the top workplace productivity killers (Hint: one rhymes with “mocial sedia”)
And most of them revolve around technology.
According to a CareerBuilder survey, here are the top ten:
