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Facebook dismissal is a warning to employers

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 18 2012

The High Court has awarded damages of just £98 to a claimant demoted for expressing his personal views on gay marriage via Facebook

Everybody is talking about social media...

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 8 2012

Until recently abuses of workplace technology were restricted to people wasting time playing games on their computers and surfing the internet

Constructive dismissal case over LinkedIn CV clash

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 27 2012

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

Twitter causes a stir

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 27 2012

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

The dangers of social networking

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 23 2011

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

Facebook snooping to stop!

Cobbetts LLP
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European Union, United Kingdom
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March 24 2011

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

Dismissal of employee for sending offensive e-mail from home computer was fair

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 24 2011

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

The impact of social networking at work: face up to Facebook

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 1 2009

According to the website: "Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them."

Facebook175 million accidents waiting to happen?

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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July 27 2009

Facebook is in the limelight again after the recent security alert involving Sir John Sawers, the next head of MI6

Employees should watch their words online

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 10 2008

13 Virgin Atlantic employees were sacked recently after a group was set up on the social networking site Facebook on which employees discussed various aspects of their jobs