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Des insultes publiees en acces restreint sur un reseau social ne constituent pas une injure publique

  • Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
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  • France
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  • May 8 2013

La question de savoir si les propos relatifs à l'entreprise ou à ses membres, tenus par un salarié sur un réseau social, ont ou non un caractère

The global employer: the social media issue

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 25 2012

Social media is changing the way that we communicate, work and do business, wherever we are in the world

May the facilities accorded by a collective bargaining agreement allowing trade union sites to make a company’s intranet sites mutually accessible through “links” be reserved solely to those trade unions representing workers at company level?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • France
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  • June 19 2012

The trade union “Sud Renault Guyancourt-Aubevoye”, recognised representative at the level of the Guyancourt-Aubevoye establishment was allocated an Intranet site

Fine imposed for disparaging former employer online

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • March 16 2012

Believing his dismissal was unjustified, a former employee of an insurance company created a new social networking profile and used a pseudonym to disparage his former employer

French employees should check their privacy settings before posting on social media platforms

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • France
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  • February 28 2012

It may seem obvious to a lay person that employees should refrain from insulting their companies on social media due to the threat of termination for cause; however, there are contradictory legal principles that apply to the use of social media by employees which can be used both for and against employees (i.e. freedom of speech, right to privacy, data protection laws, an employer’s right to take disciplinary action, public insult offense, etc

French high court upholds company's review of employees' email

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • France
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  • April 2 2011

France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, has ruled in Securitas France v. M. X. that it was permissible for a company to fire an employee based in part on emails he had exchanged with another employee, with whom he had a personal relationship, in which the two employees referred to a supervisor in offensive terms

Employee privacy and social media in the workplace - a global outlook

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 30 2011

A Connecticut ambulance service company that allegedly discharged an employee because she criticized the company on Facebook has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB

French Supreme Court upholds right of company to access an employee's emails

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • France
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  • March 9 2011

Confirming a line of French decisions, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) has rendered a decision on whether an employer may access its employee's emails in the workplace

French labour law court confirms gross negligence dismissal of employees for statements posted on Facebook wall

  • Ichay & Mullenex Avocats
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  • France
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  • November 19 2010

Three employees of Alten, a major consulting and engineering company, had been dismissed for serious professional misconduct after having criticised their company and supervisors on Facebook wall

How companies can mitigate the risks related to the use of social networks by employees

  • Ichay & Mullenex Avocats
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  • France, USA
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  • October 1 2010

Today, the use of social networks largely exceeds the personal sphere