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Variety no longer the spice of life for Mel B

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • May 13 2013

In a recent New South Wales decision, the Supreme Court of Australia found that television company Seven Network (Operations) Limited (Seven) was

Facebook sacked employee reinstated

  • Gadens Lawyers
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 5 2013

The Fair Work Commission warns of the expectation that employers will have a Social Media Policy if they wish to discipline employees for abusing

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Social media - a brisk stroll through the minefield

  • Colin Biggers & Paisley
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  • Australia
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  • December 13 2012

Social media provides businesses with a new avenue to communicate with their customers

Full Bench confirms it was unfair to dismiss employee for inappropriate Facebook comments

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
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  • November 7 2012

A Full Bench of FWA has upheld an earlier decision of FWA which ordered an employer to compensate and reinstate an employee who was dismissed after allegedly making offensive and derogatory remarks about his managers on his Facebook page

Dismissal after inappropriate Facebook posts held to be unfair

  • McInnes Wilson Lawyers
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 30 2012

The recent decision in Linfox Australia Pty Ltd v Stutsel 2012 FWAFB 7079 reinforces how important it is for employers to have sound social media policies

Social media termination still unfair, but next time not so lucky

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 25 2012

Fair Work Australia continues to treat ‘social media’ terminations with caution, but with a clear signal that its tolerance of social media ignorance will not last

Absent social media policy stings transport giant

  • Madgwicks
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  • Australia
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  • October 17 2012

The Full Bench of Fair Work Australia has recently dismissed an appeal by an employer (Linfox) against a decision to reinstate an employee who the Tribunal found to have been unfairly dismissed for what Linfox deemed to be inappropriate social media use

Facebook implications

  • Holding Redlich
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 16 2012

A truck driver with 22 years employment with an ‘extremely good’ record was dismissed by Linfox because of ‘serious misconduct’ following complaints about comments made on the driver’s Facebook page about two of the company’s managers

Anti-social media: Linfox full bench sets a framework for assessing misuse

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 15 2012

The Full Bench of Fair Work Australia has dismissed Linfox’s appeal against the reinstatement of an employee who was terminated for misuse of social media

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