Posted on May 5, 2015 by Ruder Ware Alumni
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A number of recent decisions have laid out some of the risks related to employee Facebook postings and decisions by the employer to terminate an employee for inappropriate statements on Facebook. These decisions have involved constitutional challenges to a termination of a public employee for liking the Facebook page of a particular candidate for office, […]
Posted on September 16, 2014 by Ruder Ware Alumni
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I recently blogged about a decision from the National Labor Relations Board holding that an action by a worker to “Like” a comment on Facebook about the poor conduct of a company was considered protected speech under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB found that the termination of an employee for “liking” a comment […]
Posted on May 20, 2014 by Ruder Ware Alumni
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A teacher’s aide in Michigan was disciplined for not giving her Facebook password to her boss. The boss wanted to look at her Facebook page because a picture of her coworker had been posted to the employee’s Facebook page. The refusal to provide the password formed the basis for disciplinary action against the employee. Personally, […]