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It doesn’t end well for the PR Exec. Just so we’re clear.
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HR’s 2013 Performance Review (via SHRM’s #nextchat)
Yesterday, We Know Next, the muscle-bound social media arm of the Society for Human Resource Management, hosted a NextChat session on Twitter.
Oh, you don’t know NextChat?
NextChat is a one-hour session on Twitter, which runs every Wednesday from 3-4 PM EST on a topic du jour — that’s the soup of the day — affecting HR.
Each NextChat features 8 questions posed to an HR influencer. During theNextChat, other Twitter users may tweet along using the hashtag #nextchat, or simply follow along by searching for the #nextchat hashtag.
This week, the HR influencer was moi. (Go figure). The topic: HR’s 2013 Performance Review.
If you missed yesterday’s NextChat, check out all great tweets after the jump…
NLRB ok’s firing of two employees who trashed their company on Facebook
It’s been a while since we’ve discussed discipline for employee Facebook behavior. So, let’s go over some basics. Generally speaking:
- one employee, griping alone on Facebook about his employer, can be fired; but
- two employees, complaining together on Facebook about their employer, cannot be fired.
Facebook photo gets female employee fired; male employee merely reprimanded
Over the weekend, I read this article about Laraine Cook, a girls basketball coach at a high school in Idaho, who lost her job, apparently after her school learned about a photo on her Facebook page that showed her boyfriend touching her chest.
What struck me as interesting is that Ms. Cook’s boyfriend is also her co-worker, varsity football coach Tom Harrison.
And what struck me as even more interesting is that, while Ms. Cook lost her job, Mr. Harrison was merely disciplined.
Nearly half of employers investigate job applicants online
This according to a CareerBuilder.com survey (here) released last week.
Of the 2,775 hiring managers polled, almost half (48%) responded that employers will use Google or other search engines to research candidates. Nearly the same number (44%) will research the candidate on Facebook. Just over one quarter (27%) will monitor the candidate’s activity on Twitter. 23% will review the candidate’s posts or comments on Yelp.com, Glassdoor.com or other rating sites.
The survey cites these statistics as a way to encourage job seekers to keep their online personas clean from digital dirt. So, I’ll take a different approach and offer some tips for employers:
That’s what they said: Social media and the workplace and the lawsuits
One social media-related post in October. One may be good enough for the Red Sox — eat it, Detroit — not here.
So, with a little help from my friends, I’ve got three stories on the the impact that the technology in the workplace has on litigation proceedings.
Over at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Venkat Balasubramani writes here about a recent decision in which a court found that a passenger’s social media rant against and airline employee may not have been defamation, but it was enough to create a claim of “false light.”
That’s what they said: Facebook “Like” under the First Amendment, same-sex marriage benefits, plus a carnival
Now, where did I put the mustard for my deep fried Red Bull battered Twinkie dog? (Like I would ever use ketchup for that?!?)
While I search for the spicy brown, after the jump, I’ll get you caught up on the latest employment-law news…
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Waitress suspended for posting racist customer receipt on Facebook
It’s a story that first made news over the weekend and is quickly picking up steam, ironically, because of social media.
A customer at a Tennessee Red Lobster restaurant allegedly left a racist message on a receipt. An African American waitress subsequently posted the receipt to Facebook with the message:
“This is what I got as a tip last night…so happy to live in the proud southern states..God Bless America, land of the free and home of the low class racists of Tennessee”
NJ passes a business-friendly workplace social media privacy law
It takes two to make a thing go right.
It takes two to make it out of sight, palatable enough for bipartisan support.
It took some doing, but the State of New Jersey finally has itself a workplace social media privacy law, becoming the 12th state to restrict company access to prospective and current employee social media.