The tweets are flying out of the courtroom in day 5 of the highly anticipated Silicon Valley sex bias jury trial happening right now in a Superior Court of California San Francisco courtroom. Journalists from the Wall Street Journal , Business Insider... Read More
Can an employer's social media policy be unconstitutional? Maybe - if it's a public employer. We may get some insight into the constitutional boundaries of public employer social media policies in a new lawsuit filed against a sheriff's office... Read More
This week I plan to dedicate a few blog posts to highlighting some of the latest trends in social media and [fill in the blank]. Last month, the good folks at Fulbright & Jaworski , released their 2011 Litigation Trends Survey . The 2011 survey gathered... Read More
Employment lawyers know the potential importance of social-media evidence. I’ve written about numerous cases in which an employee is fired for something he posted on Facebook or other social-media site. As a general matter, it is not unlawful per... Read More
; What happens to an employee's social media account when the employee leaves a company? One British court has answered this question by ordering a former employee of a recruiting firm to turn over his LinkedIn contacts to his former employer... Read More
Last Tuesday night, I was in Las Vegas. Kinda. Sorta. Actually, I had the pleasure of participating in a Google+ Hangout for an interactive Q&A on social media topics that took place in Last Vegas from #KronosWorks12 . Along with NPR's... Read More
Employers Should Heed FTC's Recent Reminder About Endorsements Written by: Yonaton Aronoff Celebrity Ashton Kutcher recently got into hot water with the FTC while serving as a guest editor of an online-only version of Details magazine ( http... Read More
by Krista N. H ardwick & Clay D. Creps An employer's right to monitor and restrict what its employees say about the company on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and personal blogs may have drastically changed. The National Labor Relations Board... Read More
It is day 7 of the sex discrimination jury trial against a high-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firm and the social media debate is raging [Ed. note: This article was originally posted on Mar. 4]. For those not following along, Ellen Pao... Read More
Susan Fredman Design Group employed Jill Maremont as its Director of Marketing, Public Relations, and E-Commerce. In that capacity, she used her own personal Twitter account and Facebook page to promote SFDG’s business. To keep track of the various... Read More
I'm a fairly easy-going guy. My buttons don't get easily pushed, I'm not easily riled, and I rarely get angry. But, when I get fired up....look out, sucka! One thing that really gets me going is when others fail to accept accountability... Read More
The title of this post is a bit laughable, isn’t it? I mean, really, it’s almost an oxymoron. Keeping secrets on social media? What’s the point? The very existence of social media is dependent upon sharing—not secret-keeping. But... Read More
In Triple Play Sports Bar & Grille [pdf] , the NLRB unanimously concluded that an employer unlawfully fired two employees for their off-duty Facebooking, and less-than unanimously concluded that the same employer’s social media policy was unlawfully... Read More
More employers are turning to social media sites to vet potential employees. There is no doubt that sites like Facebook and Twitter offer a wealth of information about potential hires. Using these sites to vet job candidates offers a great opportunity... Read More
Work-related blogging is compensable time. Yesterday, I read the District of Hawaii opinion in Tagupa v. VIPdesk, Inc. . Tagupa worked for VIPdesk, a national concierge network, as part of its remote concierge team [subscribers can access an enhanced... Read More