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A number of months ago, Paul Hamilton, KYC Cube Ltd, asked me if I wanted to be the group moderator on Linkedin of a new subgroup for his AML Knowledge Center, dedicated to anti-bribery compliance and best-practices. My reaction, ‘really?’...

I conclude this exploration of the uses of social media in doing compliance by exploring why the compliance function is uniquely suited to using social media tools. Long gone are the days when Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) or compliance practitioners...

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...

How much is a Twitter account worth? According to PhoneDog v. Kravitz (N.D. Cal Nov. 8, 2011) , Twitter is quite the profitable endeavor! In PhoneDog , an employee had a work-related Twitter account. When he left PhoneDog, he took his Twitter...

The king is dead. Long live the king! Teens are beginning to drop Facebook like a bad habit; instead, taking advantage of messaging apps like What'sApp , Snapchat , and Instagram to social network. According to a GlobalWebIndex study highlighted...

Social-media policies are the hot topic in the world of employment law. Questions about the advisability of social-media policies and the legal limits on what these policies may and may not regulate continue to abound. Employers who may be considering...

ZDNet's Friending Facebook blog reports on a survey [pdf] conducted by marketing agency Russell Herder , which concluded that 21% of employees are Facebook friends with the boss. I've written before about some of the risks, and some of the benefits...

Delaware is one step closer to legislating employers' ability to manage their workforces. I testified yesterday about the significant flaws in H.B. 308, called the "Workplace Privacy Act." The members of the Telecommunications, Internet...

Delaware's version of a Facebook-privacy law, called the "Workplace Privacy Act" (H.B. 308), will go to hearing on Wednesday before the Telecommunications, Internet, and Technology Committee in Delaware's House of Representatives...

I've now had a few days to digest the NLRB's latest foray into regulating social media in the workplace . I can sum up the NLRB's report in three words: What a mess. In a mere 35 pages, the NLRB appears to have ripped the guts out...

by Chrys A. Martin and Krista N. Hardwick You may recall that last November we told you about the Connecticut employer who faced NLRB charges for firing an employee who posted derogatory comments about the company on Facebook ( http://www.bullivant...

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...

The International Law Firm of Fulbright & Jaworski - Labor and Employment William Patrick Finegan and Barbara Jean D'Aquila Recent activity of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reminds non-union employers that the long arm of...

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...

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...