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A company providing mobile phone information is suing its former employee for $340,000 after the employee took 17,000 of its Twitter followers with him when he left the company
A human resources executive, John Flexman, was recently ‘forced out of his job’ after registering his interest in ‘career opportunities’ on the social media site LinkedIn and uploading his CV
A pub manager has been found to have been fairly dismissed for gross misconduct by breaching her employer's internet policy and making inappropriate comments about customers on Facebook
The surfing days may be numbered for the employer who checks up on his employees or prospective employees on Facebook and other social networking sites
An ET has held that the dismissal of an employee for sending an offensive e-mail from his home computer to his colleague's home computer, outside of work hours, was fair
