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New Mexico limits employer access to job applicants' social media accounts

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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May 15 2013

New Mexico recently became the latest state to prohibit employer access to social media accounts when Governor Susana Martinez signed S.B. 371 into

NLRB affirms Facebook firings violated law, rejecting employer’s conspiracy argument

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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May 10 2013

The National Labor Relations Board recently affirmed an administrative law judge's findings that Design Technology Group, doing business as Bettie

New Arkansas law protects employees' social media accounts

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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May 9 2013

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe recently signed H.B. 1901 into law, prohibiting employers from asking employees or job applicants for social media

New Virginia law protects personal identifying information of employees

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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April 29 2013

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell recently signed into law H.B. 1931, which makes it unlawful to require an employer to release to third parties

Posts on employer’s blog and employee’s Facebook account may make employer liable for retaliation

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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March 18 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee recently allowed the retaliation claims of two former employees at Coyote Ugly, a chain

Michigan bans employers from seeking social media passwords

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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January 8 2013

Michigan governor Rick Snyder signed H.B. 5523 into law at the end of 2012, barring Michigan employers and colleges from asking current or prospective

Employer’s access of employee’s cell phone did not violate the Stored Communications Act

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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January 3 2013

The Fifth Circuit held that an employee's cell phone was not covered under the Stored Communications Act and therefore her employer did not violate the

National Labor Relations Board orders reinstatement of workers fired for Facebook comments

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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January 2 2013

Recently, the National Labor Relations Board affirmed the decision of an administrative law judge holding that an employer violated the National Labor

Dispute over ownership ofTtwitter account settles

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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December 17 2012

PhoneDog Media recently announced that it had reached a settlement with a former employee in a dispute over the ownership of a Twitter account created by the employee using the company's name

Another social media policy found to violate NLRA

Winston & Strawn LLP
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USA
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December 10 2012

On November 14, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board found that DISH Network Corp.'s social media policy violated the National Labor Relations Act