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CFO Bounced for Social Media Posts
May 17, 2012Examples of employers terminating employees for violating social media policies abound – as you can tell from our prior posts and the NLRB’s continuing interest in the...
Read moreThe Feds Weigh In on the Social Media Password Ban Controversy For Employers and Schools
April 30, 2012On Friday, Rep. Eliot Engel and Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to stop employers from requiring applicants to divulge social...
Read moreEmployer in Hot Water for Facebook Posts – Jimmy John’s Employee Harassed on Facebook
April 30, 2012As our regular readers know, we’ve written a number of posts on cases where employers have found themselves in hot water for terminating employees based on Facebook...
Read moreThe Debate Over Social Media Passwords Continues: Maryland Legislature Passes Ban on Employers Asking for Social Media Passwords
April 17, 2012Since my last post describing the brewing storm over the practice of employers asking applicants for social media passwords, Maryland has become the first state in the U.S. to...
Read moreThe Minnesota Legislature Contemplates Protecting Employee and Applicant Facebook Passwords From Employers
March 29, 2012Maybe you are all tired of hearing about the legality of asking for an applicant’s Facebook password – it’s been all over the news recently, and I wrote about it last...
Read moreEmployee Fired After Suicidal Facebook Message is Going to Trial
March 27, 2012A court in Seattle recently ruled that an employee who was fired after sending her manager a Facebook message stating she was thinking of killing herself can go to trial on her...
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- May 17 2012 : CFO Bounced for Social Media Posts (No Comments)
Examples of employers terminating employees for violating social media policies abound – as you can tell from our prior posts and the NLRB’s continuing interest in the topic. This week, [More...]
- Apr 30 2012 : The Feds Weigh In on the Social Media Password Ban Controversy For Employers and Schools (No Comments)
On Friday, Rep. Eliot Engel and Rep. Jan Schakowsky introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to stop employers from requiring applicants to divulge social media passwords. According to [More...]
- Apr 30 2012 : Employer in Hot Water for Facebook Posts – Jimmy John’s Employee Harassed on Facebook (No Comments)
As our regular readers know, we’ve written a number of posts on cases where employers have found themselves in hot water for terminating employees based on Facebook activity. In a [More...]
- Apr 17 2012 : The Debate Over Social Media Passwords Continues: Maryland Legislature Passes Ban on Employers Asking for Social Media Passwords (No Comments)
Since my last post describing the brewing storm over the practice of employers asking applicants for social media passwords, Maryland has become the first state in the U.S. to pass [More...]
- Mar 29 2012 : The Minnesota Legislature Contemplates Protecting Employee and Applicant Facebook Passwords From Employers (1 Comment)
Maybe you are all tired of hearing about the legality of asking for an applicant’s Facebook password – it’s been all over the news recently, and I wrote about it [More...]
Contributing Authors
Teresa is the Chair of Fredrikson’s Non-Competes and Trade Secrets Group, and an MSBA Certified Labor and Employment Law Specialist. She counsels business clients on risk management and policy development relating to employee use of technology, and also litigates their business and employment disputes. Teresa trains, writes and lectures extensively on legal issues arising from business use of technology and social media.
Norah is an employment law attorney representing businesses both in and out of the courtroom on employee issues from hiring, to firing, and everything in between. She writes, speaks, and consults on employee use (and misuse) of the Internet, social media, and technology.
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