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Employee fired after suicidal Facebook message is going to trial

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2012

A court in Seattle recently ruled that an employee who was fired after sending her manager a Facebook message stating she was thinking of killing herself can go to trial on her disability discrimination claims

The summary social media best practices in recruiting, sourcing and hiring

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

Thank you to everyone who attended our seminar this morning on Social Media Best Practices in Recruiting, Sourcing and Hiring!

New report on social media provides no bright line tests for employee conduct or employer policies

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2012

Disciplining and terminating employees for “bad behavior” in social media continues to be a hot topic of discussion for all employers

Does the NLRB find all Facebook firings unlawful? No!

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2012

We talked in our last post about some recent Facebook firings contained in the National Labor Relations Board report on social media

The latest on NLRB Facebook firings unlawful terminations abound

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 20 2012

We promised a series of posts discussing the National Labor Relations Board’s most recent report on social media cases, so here you go!

NLRB issues new report on Facebook firings

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2012

The National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel issued a new report last week discussing 14 recent social media cases

Who owns your Twitter account?

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2012

We’ve talked before about who owns social media profiles, content, etc., but we had not seen much guidance yet from the courts

Ready to dump Facebook?

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2011

Have you ever thought of quitting Facebook?

New statistics on social media at work who’s using it and is it effective?

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

To continue our conversation about recent studies on social media, I recently ran across a survey done by the Society for Human Resource Management on Social Media in the Workplace

The case of the bad hair day

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 17 2011

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that a long-term care facility in North Carolina violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) when it terminated an employee who violated its dress code policy by wearing a hat to work