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Employee’s Facebook fumble dooms her FMLA claims

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 18 2013

As we have previously mentioned, an employer's use of social media content has its risks and legal limitations. However, under certain circumstances

Who owns your company’s Twitter followers?

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2012

More and more companies are turning to social media for marketing, and in some cases are creating accounts on Twitter.com, a social networking service which allows a use to send updates or “tweets” of 140 characters or less to its “followers,” people who have subscribed to that user’s content

Good news on the social media front

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2011

It seems that the NLRB files a complaint every month against an employer claiming an illegal reaction to a Facebook posting, taking the position that social media complaints are protected activity if they touch on topics of employee collective concern

Can employers in an FLSA overtime case issue subpoenas concerning an employee's social media, banking, and texting activities?

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2011

Increasingly, employers are wrestling with how best to monitor and limit employees' use of the Internet to conduct non-work-related activities

Potential loss of attorney-client privilege yet another social mediablogging concern for employers

  • Foley & Lardner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2011

Social media and blogging are quickly becoming areas of focus and concern for employers