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

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

The Labor Law Insider: Better Change Your Policies, Including Social Media

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Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar welcomes two new Labor Law Insiders as they discuss the shifting standards applied by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to traditional employment policies found in almost every...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Social Media Compliance Risk

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Social media keeps evolving: From MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to SnapChat to TikTok to whatever comes next. One thing stays the same, though: there are lots of compliance risk. In this podcast Kortney Nordrum,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Absolute Freedom to Tweet? Employers (and the NLRA) May Have Something to Say About It

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Do you need a social media policy or are the legal obstacles just too much? Now more than ever, people are exercising their First Amendment right to free speech, which, not surprisingly, can cause heartburn at the workplace....more

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NLRB Approves Workplace Social Media Policy Limiting Employees’ Online Communications

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Recently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in a split decision 2-1, approved a California-based ambulance company’s implementation of a social media policy that prohibited employees from “inappropriate...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The End of an Era? NLRB Holds Lawful Employer’s Rules Restricting Employee Communications on Social Media, But This Pro-Employer...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the NLRB held in a 2-1 decision that an employer’s rules restricting certain types of employee communications on social media were lawful under the NLRA. However, the Board panel was sharply...more

Baker Donelson

The NLRB's Continuing Clarification of the Impact of Social Media Policies on NLRA Rights

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On August 7, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a decision providing additional guidance to employers regarding acceptable social media policies that do not violate an employee's Section 7 rights under the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

NLRB Expands Employer Options for Social Media and Non-Disparagement Rules

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With the COVID-19 emergency impacting employers’ operations and the way employees work, more and more employees may start taking to social media to vent their opinions about work and current events (sometimes intertwining the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Return to Work Virtual Toolkit for Employers | Off-Duty Conduct: COVID-19 Parties and Social Media Ranting—What’s an...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented strain on organizations of all sizes across all industries. The uncertainty of the “new normal” is forcing employers all over the world to consider various new policies as workers...more

Jaburg Wilk

Threatening Employees on Social Media is No LOL Matter

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Sometimes jokes fall flat. Sometimes they can get employers in trouble with the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”). A recent case is a cautionary tale. What Happened? In responding to a story about workers for...more

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NLRB Updates Guidance on Social Media Policies

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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects the rights of employees to come together to address conditions of employment with or without a union. Those protections extend to certain work-related conversations conducted...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Do You “Like” Me? Are We “Friends”? A Social Media Update For Employers

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Every company has faced challenges related to the social media presence of, or use by, prospective and current employees. This includes questions about off-duty conduct that spills over into the workplace, posting about terms...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Can Employers get a Grip on Griping? Not all Gripes are Created Equal…

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Negative employee attitudes, chronic complaining, insubordination and gossiping are bad for the workplace.  They can impact employee morale and productivity, and if spread outside of the organization, reflect very poorly on...more

Baker Donelson

To Post or Not to Post: NLRB, Social Media & the Workplace

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At the core of federal labor law is an employee's right to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of mutual aid and protection, even if it is not a union shop. ...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Social Media Policies: Protection for “Water Cooler” Discussions in the Digital Age

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As discussed in an earlier blog post, conflict between retail employers and their employees over the use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is increasingly common....more

Ruder Ware

Employee Social Media and Employee Discipline – Caution

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A number of companies have adopted social media policies that address the types of things employees can post on social media even if it is the employee’s private social media page. While companies have the right to protect...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Social Media in the Workplace: More Changes Ahead?

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In days past employees discussed and debated workplace issues around the water cooler. That sentimental past-time has long since been replaced by online social media networking and the reach of social media is stunning....more

Troutman Pepper

Termination For Social Media Activity May Result In Unemployment Compensation Benefits

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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

Cozen O'Connor

I-21 – Sexual Harassment (Still), Political Tweeting, and Intersectional Discrimination

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Good faith and timing means everything in employment law. This episode of Employment Law Now provides an update from DC, discusses questions employers should be asking in today’s climate of troubling sexual harassment news,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

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

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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

Burr & Forman

Employees’ Social Media Activity: Proceed with Caution

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Given the prevalence of social media in our online culture, employers are forced to navigate the everchanging landscape of issues presented by the social media usage of their employees. What recourse does an employer have...more

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

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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

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The National Labor Relations Board’s Crackdown on Social Media Policies

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If your company has a social media policy in its handbook, that policy is in the crosshairs of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB is the agency that enforces the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which,...more

Baker Donelson

NLRB Continues to "Like" Enforcement over Social Media Policies and Related Issues

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In recent years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has focused attention on company policies that attempt to limit employee engagement in social media. Specifically, the NLRB has consistently taken the position that...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

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

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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

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