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Does Social Media Change the Meaning of Solicitation?
By defining “solicitation” to include passive social media connections and activities, you are at least putting yourself into a position to have a court consider shutting down an ex-employee for maintaining online relationships.
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Compensable Working Time: The De Minimis Doctrine and ‘Rounding’ Time
There are several traps an employer can fall into with regard to accurately recording the time that an employee actually works.
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Employees, If You Don't Want Us to Get Your Social Media Info in Discovery, Don't Post!
Employees, if you do not want your social media posts to be reviewed in a lawsuit you file, stop posting. Stop writing about your post-termination state of mind. Stop communicating with former co-workers. Stop writing about your lawsuit.
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Fired Employee Admits to Hacking Gucci
Just before his trial was to begin, Sam Chihlung Yin pleaded guilty to an attack that cost the luxury goods maker about $200,000.
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Does Your Social Media Policy Educate About Being 'Profersonal?'
The takeaway might simply be that employers remind their employees to 'be professional' online, and that businesses will hold employees accountable for what they post that could cast the company in a bad light.
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Privacy Laws Threaten Compliance
California could become the latest state to ban employer access to private social-media sites used by employees. A law passed by the state Legislature last month still must get the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until the end of the month to sign it.
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Ohio Joins the Fray on Employers Asking for Social Media Passwords
This is not a problem that needs fixing. Companies simply aren't engaging in the type of conduct this bill seeks to legislate.
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Measuring ROI Tops Executives' List of Social Media Challenges
Finding knowledgeable staff to execute social media tasks ranked as the second-most cited hurdle.
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The Impact of Motors & Mobiles
Experts recommend that employers establish and enforce policies about talking or texting while driving on the job. As many companies have discovered, distracted drivers are a liability to themselves and other motorists—as well as the employers for whom they work.
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Facebook Foibles
It's not just the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Employers generally are still fumbling around in the Facebook dark. And more shins will be bruised before we find the light switch.
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EEOC to Publish Discrimination Charge Statistics Online
The U.S. Equal Employment Commission said May 14 it is making its private sector workplace discrimination charge statistics for each of the 50 states and U.S. territories available online for fiscal years 2009-2011.
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Employer Requests for Applicants' Online Access Gets Lawmakers' Attention
A letter sent to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asks that agency to issue a legal opinion as to whether asking for passwords violates current federal law.
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Companies Bring Bring-Your-Own-Device Policies to the Party
More and more companies are establishing bring-your-own-device policies. Once they get past the initial security concerns, most company leaders are finding little downside to allowing employees to use their own smartphones and tablets for work.
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Bill Barring Firms From Requiring Applicant Passwords Awaits Governor's OK
Calls have been growing for federal and state legislation that would bar employers from requiring access to job applicants' social media postings.
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Complying With GINA
Follow these tips to stay in compliance with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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Former Groupon Employees Countersue Over Contract Terms
The countersuit, filed Jan. 25, reveals an increasingly testy relationship between two high-profile Internet players: Google, the king of search advertising, based in Mountain View, California, and Chicago-based Groupon, the leader in the new online-advertising business with daily deals.
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Genetic Shake-Up
You must make the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act part of your company's DNA.
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Worker Policies Must Consider Ever-Changing Web Landscape
“Certainly, almost every large company in the U.S. has a social media policy today, but the maturity and adequacy of policies varies widely,” a consultant says.
