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Virtual harassment: when online behavior becomes a real-world problem

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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November 19 2009

Web-based social networking sites have become part of the mainstream, and companies should consider enhancing their existing electronic communications policies to account for sites like Facebook and Twitter

Social media sites: a useful tool for exposing violent employees?

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 25 2010

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become fertile grounds, unfortunately, for expressions of hatred and intentions to commit acts of severe violence

The workplace is still for working: employers may promulgate and enforce rules limiting personal use of social media during working time

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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November 23 2011

Faced with a boom in the use of social media through increasingly smaller and more powerful personal devices (such as smart phones and iPads) and the personal use by employees of company-owned communication systems to access both the Internet and social networking sites, employers should update their policies to control such uses and ensure that their employees are spending their working time productively

"New" board finds that employer violated NLRA by disciplining employee for sending union-related emails through company's email system

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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November 23 2011

In this case, the employer maintained a policy prohibiting the use of its internal communications system to solicit or proselytize for commercial ventures, religious, or political causes or outside organizations or other non-job related solicitations

NLRB increases scrutiny of employer restrictions on employee social media usage

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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January 25 2012

No governmental body has been more active in addressing social media’s impact on the workplace than the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”

Are employer social networking accounts protectable trade secrets?

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 13 2012

Social media has become an increasingly important tool for businesses to market their products and services

Should employers and Facebook be friends?

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 16 2012

Like it or not, we live in a digital-age, and how people choose to define themselves is often readily showcased on social networking sites such as Facebook

Social media and the on-going battle to protect patient information

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 6 2012

Social media have become de rigueur globally

NLRB Acting General Counsel issues follow-up report on social media cases

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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March 8 2012

On January 25, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board's ("NLRB") Acting General Counsel ("AGC") Lafe Solomon issued a second report on unfair labor practice cases involving social media issues

Take 5: views you can use - April 2012

Epstein Becker Green
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USA
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April 26 2012

In recent weeks, a number of federal and state legislators have issued strong statements against employers that demand access to job applicants' Facebook accounts before making a hiring decision

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