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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

EntertainHR: Michigan’s Miscue—Is Your Company Ready for a Social Media Scandal?

FordHarrison on 6/7/2023

Only a few days after being hired by the University of Michigan’s football program as the assistant director of football recruiting, Glenn Schembechler (son of longtime Michigan head coach Bo Schembechler) resigned after his...more

Political and Controversial Activity in the Workplace [More with McGlinchey Ep. 11]

McGlinchey Stafford on 10/16/2020

Election season is in full swing and the climate is certainly charged. In this episode of “More with McGlinchey,” Labor and Employment attorneys Mag Bickford, Rasch Brown, Camille Bryant, and Kathy Conklin discuss employees’...more

Treating the Cause, Not the Symptom: How to Avoid 10 Employment-Related Liabilities in the Health Care Industry

Williams Mullen on 5/23/2018

Companies of all shapes and sizes continually grapple with how to foster and maintain a productive, respectful work environment. Part and parcel of this objective is ensuring that the workplace complies with the various...more

General Counsel Dishes Up Advice on 43 Charges, Including Google’s Decision to Terminate an Employee for Harassment and a Union’s...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/23/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: In some early spring cleaning, last week the NLRB’s Office of General Counsel released 43 memos authored by its Division of Advice meant to provide guidance to regional offices on pending charges. Here are...more

Termination For Social Media Activity May Result In Unemployment Compensation Benefits

Troutman Pepper on 12/4/2017

Q. Our Company just terminated an employee for a social media post that was in violation of our social media policy. Will she be entitled to unemployment compensation benefits? ...more

There’s no debate: freedom of speech presents challenging legal issues for workers and employers in the age of social media

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/3/2017

John Pueschel, partner in the Winston-Salem office of Womble Bond Dickinson, examines the limits on employee free speech and use of social media against the background of recent events at Google and in Charlottesville....more

Two Employees, Social Media, An Unlawful Policy ... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 8/7/2017

The advent of social media resulted in a feverish effort by the NLRB to keep up with new technology. In reality, the legal standard for evaluating whether conduct is protected concerted activity did not change. Rather, all...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

Second Circuit Holds Pro-Union Sentiment Outweighs Impropriety of Profanity-Laden Rant Against Supervisor, His Mother, and “His...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 7/10/2017

Use of profanity by employees, whether in the workplace, outside the workplace, or on social media, presents difficult legal issues for the employer, as highlighted by a recent Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision...more

Second Circuit Holds Termination of Employee Who Attacked Supervisor in Obscene Facebook Post Violates NLRA

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 4/26/2017

The Second Circuit said last week that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired an employee who criticized a supervisor on Facebook during an election. The catch here is that the Second Circuit...more

Why after-hours social media posts can still spell on-the-job trouble

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 10/25/2016

Many people think that only teenagers and twentysomethings are using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google Plus to interact with others. Not so....more

#Fired: Post a Tweet, Lose Your Job

FordHarrison on 8/23/2016

Many people enjoy spouting off what they view as 140-character tidbits of wisdom on the social media platform Twitter. But recently several individuals have found themselves in trouble with their employers (read: former...more

We Traced The Trade Secret Leak … It’s Coming From Inside The Business

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/3/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: Protecting trade secrets from employee theft requires more than using an NDA when onboarding new employees. If businesses want to protect their confidential information, they need to take a cradle-to-grave...more

Second Circuit Upholds NLRB Decision: Discharge of Employees for Facebook “Likes” Was Unlawful

Franczek P.C. on 10/29/2015

On October 22, 2015, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision that Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille (Employer) violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations...more

Second Circuit Says Facebook Profanity Directed at Employer is Protected - Employer Violated NLRA by Terminating Two Employees...

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/29/2015

In Three D, LLC d/b/a/ Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the National Labor Relations Board's (the Board) determination that the employer, Triple Play,...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

Blocked: Managing Social Media at Work Under Virginia’s New Privacy Law

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/2/2015

With social media pervading all facets of society (no less than 67 percent of Americans are regular users), businesses have long been concerned with their employees’ potentially detrimental social media activities. As these...more

Hold that Friend Request: Legal Traps in a Post-Facebook Work Environment

Burr & Forman on 8/25/2015

Many well-meaning managers engage with employees on social media websites, and doing so provides a host of benefits: stronger relationships between employees and management; a sense of collegiality; instant updates on...more

NLRB Shows Some Restraint in its Protection of Employee Social Media Communications: Employee Termination Arising From “Egregious”...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 11/5/2014

In the wake of the NLRB’s aggressive crackdown on social media policies, many employers have asked: “Is there any limit to what employees can post on social media about their employers?” It appears that there is. Just last...more

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EntertainHR: Michigan’s Miscue—Is Your Company Ready for a Social Media Scandal?

Political and Controversial Activity in the Workplace [More with McGlinchey Ep. 11]

Treating the Cause, Not the Symptom: How to Avoid 10 Employment-Related Liabilities in the Health Care Industry

General Counsel Dishes Up Advice on 43 Charges, Including Google’s Decision to Terminate an Employee for Harassment and a Union’s...

Termination For Social Media Activity May Result In Unemployment Compensation Benefits

There’s no debate: freedom of speech presents challenging legal issues for workers and employers in the age of social media

Two Employees, Social Media, An Unlawful Policy ... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Digital Disruptions: Handling Social Media Misuse By Students And Educators

Second Circuit Holds Pro-Union Sentiment Outweighs Impropriety of Profanity-Laden Rant Against Supervisor, His Mother, and “His...

Second Circuit Holds Termination of Employee Who Attacked Supervisor in Obscene Facebook Post Violates NLRA

Why after-hours social media posts can still spell on-the-job trouble

#Fired: Post a Tweet, Lose Your Job

We Traced The Trade Secret Leak … It’s Coming From Inside The Business

Second Circuit Upholds NLRB Decision: Discharge of Employees for Facebook “Likes” Was Unlawful

Second Circuit Says Facebook Profanity Directed at Employer is Protected - Employer Violated NLRA by Terminating Two Employees...

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

Blocked: Managing Social Media at Work Under Virginia’s New Privacy Law

Hold that Friend Request: Legal Traps in a Post-Facebook Work Environment

NLRB Shows Some Restraint in its Protection of Employee Social Media Communications: Employee Termination Arising From “Egregious”...

NLRB Finds Facebook Posts Go Too Far for the Act's Protection

What's in a "Like"? Precedent-Setting Case Poses New Risk for Employers

At Least The Unicorn Won’t Sue You

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

NLRB Issues Pair of Decisions Limiting Employer Discipline and Policies Regarding Social Media

NLRB’s Actions in 2012 Highlight Critical Labor Issues for Nonunion Employers

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