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Social Media Policy Code of Conduct

Social Media Policies are organizational personnel policies that outline, often in employee handbooks, acceptable standards for online behavior, as well as ownership and maintenance of organizational social media... more +
Social Media Policies are organizational personnel policies that outline, often in employee handbooks, acceptable standards for online behavior, as well as ownership and maintenance of organizational social media accounts and profiles. The development and enforcement of Social Media Policies can be a controversial issue. For example, some Social Media Policies have been subjected to scrutiny by the National Labor Relations Board for being reasonably interpreted as discouraging "protected concerted activity."  less -
Woodruff Sawyer

Implementing a Corporate Social Media Policy

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Directors and officers know that social media is a megaphone—but do they know who at the company is holding the megaphone? And are any guardrails in place? In this week’s D&O Notebook, my colleague Lenin Lopez provides timely...more

Saiber LLC

Court Upholds Employee’s Termination for Violating Employer’s Social Media Policy

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On March 4, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania which ruled in Ellis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corp....more

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Third Circuit Affirms Termination of Employee for Facebook Post that Advocated Violence

On June 30, 2018, Lisa Ellis signed into her personal Facebook account and commented on a news story about a councilman who had been arrested for driving a car through a crowd of demonstrators protesting the untimely death of...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Day 3 of One Month to 360-Degrees of Communications in Compliance-The D&B Experience

How does one company and one Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) actively use social media to make more effective the company’s compliance culture? The company is the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and its CCO, Louis Sapirman, whom I...more

Cozen O'Connor

I-17 – Engaging Your Employees in Today’s Workplace, Featuring Rick Turner at Whirlpool Corporation

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Michael Schmidt, vice chair of Cozen O'Connor’s Labor & Employment Department, discusses how to engage your employees in today’s unique workplace and navigate a multi-jurisdictional set of employment laws. This episode...more

Burr & Forman

4th Circuit sets a match to battalion chief's First Amendment claims

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Lately, we’ve been seeing more cases in which public-sector employees accuse their governmental employer of violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Such claims can arise in many ways, but with the...more

Baker Donelson

Ah, Social Media: Blurring the Lines Between Work Life and Personal Life

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Andy Warhol is quoted as saying, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." How prophetic you were Andy. These days a single post on social media can travel around the world faster than you can say Snap...more

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