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Look Out for LinkedIn: Top Questions for Employers on How the Platform Impacts Your Workplace

Fisher Phillips on 5/31/2024

LinkedIn has become a key part of the business world for workers and employers alike. The platform can aid your recruitment efforts, company branding, and business development. But the world’s largest professional networking...more

Curious About Your Newest Employee’s Social Media Presence? Too Bad, Because in New York, It Could Cost You!

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 4/24/2024

In the era of Tiktok influencers and Instagram models, almost everyone has an online side hustle, and that highly qualified referral you just interviewed or bright new hire you just made might just be one of them! The same...more

To Stalk or Not to Stalk . . . That Is the Question – Using Social Media for Applicant Review

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/23/2019

Now more than ever, employers are using social media to screen job applicants. According to a 2018 survey, 70 percent of employers use social media to research candidates. Using social media to research job applicants can...more

Digital Disruptions: Handling Social Media Misuse By Students And Educators

Fisher Phillips on 7/15/2017

Beginning with the launch of Myspace and Facebook in the early part of the last decade, social media communication has taken the world by storm. Today, social media networking is the primary means of communicating about one’s...more

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update Volume 6, Issue 4

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 10/15/2015

Five social media law issues to discuss with your clients - The explosive growth of social media has clients facing legal questions that didn’t even exist a few short years ago. Helping your clients navigate this...more

Maine Social Media Employee Privacy Law Goes Into Effect October 15, 2015

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 9/23/2015

In a sign of the growing trend of states enacting statutes protecting employee privacy, Maine became the latest state to prohibit employers from requiring employees and job applicants to provide passwords to their personal...more

Delaware Adds to Growing Patchwork of Social Media Laws

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 8/11/2015

On August 7, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed a law to prohibit employers from interfering with the personal social media accounts of their prospective and current employees. The new law, which also took effect on...more

Retailer - Fall 2014

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/18/2014

Counting the Cost of Payroll Cards: Are they Worth it for Employers? Retailers, as well as other employers, have grown to rely on payroll cards to compensate employees who may not have bank accounts. What are the legal risks...more

Rhode Island Enacts Employee Social Media Privacy Legislation

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/4/2014

Rhode Island has recently enacted legislation intended to protect job applicants’ and employees’ social media accounts and information. The new law prohibits employers from requiring job applicants or employees to disclose...more

Tweet, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way: What All Employers Need To Know About Social Media In The Workplace

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 3/21/2013

Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. YouTube. Blogs. Email. Texts. Social media in the workplace has become a fact of life for all employers. Companies are learning that these once feared social media sites can be powerful marketing...more

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