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Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Off-duty social media is just as actionable as sexual harassment as on-duty misconduct

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"An employer cannot be liable for what an employee posts online while off-the-clock. Personal time is personal time; it's irrelevan...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Just because you only use the n-word on your personal TikTok doesn't mean your employer can't fire you for it.

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Until yesterday, I had never heard of a "trad-wife" or of Lilly Gaddis. A trad-wife is a burgeoning trend of women embracing tradi...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Despite what he says, Elon Musk will not pay your legal bills if you’re fired for Xing

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"If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No li...
Monday, July 10, 2023

If you can’t beat ’em, sue ’em.

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“Competition is fine, cheating is not.” That’s what Elon Musk tweeted after Twitter’s lawyer’s cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Employer correctly fires employee for posting racist meme, court says

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Rita Hall worked as a line supervisor at Kosei St. Mary's Corporation when she decided to post a meme of two juxtaposed photos on her pe...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Can an employer disable online commenting to quell pro-union messaging?

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There's a lot going on with the union organizing campaign at Creature Comforts Brewing Company . While the  union (known as "BUG&qu...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

A eulogy for Heather Armstrong

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Heather Armstrong, the "queen of the mommy bloggers" and the author of Dooce.com, is dead from an apparent suicide after a relapse...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Tweets, honest beliefs, and terminations

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@realDonaldTrump I am the VP of HR in a comp outside of philly an informal survey of our employees shows 100% AA employees voting Trump! On ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Offensive social media posts doom airline employee’s discrimination claim

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"If I were Black in America, I think I'd get down on my knees every day and thank my lucky stars that my ancestors were brought ove...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired

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This is how it started. This is how it's ended (for now). In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter em...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Would you fire this employee?

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Over the weekend, I asked a simple question on LinkedIn : "Would you fire this employee?" The employee in question took to LinkedI...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Posting about litigation (actual or potential) is a terrible idea

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Until yesterday, Erin Overbey worked as an editor at The New Yorker . Shortly after her termination, Overbey took to Twitter  to write abou...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Is there a statute of limitations on old social media posts?

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"LET ME SALUTE TO HITLER THE GREAT. He said 'i would have killed all the jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why i...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Court upholds termination of employee for off-duty Facebook posts critical of Black Lives Matter

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"Black lives" matter causes segregation. Have you ever hear[d] of "white lives" matter or "[J]ewish" lives m...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Federal court holds that the NLRB doesn’t have a sense of humor

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On June 6, 2019, unionized employees of Vox Media , a left-leaning digital media company, walked off the job during union contract negotiati...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Brewery CEO out after backlash to controversial vaccine comments

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Vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity. If you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator. Those are the words Josh St...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

When protected concerted activity isn’t protected

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Netflix has fired three marketing executives for criticizing their co-workers over Slack. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the ex...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

PLEASE, I’m freaking begging you, DO NOT use social media to determine applicants’ race and gender

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Almost as long as social media has existed, employers have searched social media to dig up dirt on prospective employees. There is nothing...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

EEOC settlement provides expensive lesson on including social media in your anti-harassment policies and training

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EEOC v. Nabors Corp. Services involves serious allegations of racial harassment, including the following. Being addressed at work by co...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Social media accounts are not telling you the whole story about your applicants and employees

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If you rely on social media to paint for you a full and complete picture about your job applicants and employees, you are going to be very...