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Responding to Employees’ Personal Social Networking

September 25, 2009 at 8:50 am by: West Virginia Employment Law Letter

Imagine that one of your employees has her own webpage. One day, you find out that she’s posted a satirical picture poking fun at the company on her site. Then you learn that another employee sounded off about his supervisor on his blog after he received a negative performance evaluation. Can you do anything about [...]

Why Employers Can’t Ignore Social Networking Sites

September 11, 2009 at 10:54 am by: New York Employment Law Letter

Over the last several years, social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter have evolved to the point where most employees use at least one, if not several, of them throughout each day. Social networking sites provide an easily accessible medium for individuals to stay in contact with friends, colleagues, clients, prospective clients, and [...]

What Can HR Do About Workplace Gossip?

April 4, 2008 at 3:54 pm by: West Virginia Employment Law Letter

Let’s face it. We’re living in a society that’s fascinated, if not obsessed, with the private lives of other people. As much as you may want to deny it, you know you’ve looked at the National Enquirer more than once — even if it was just while you were waiting in the grocery store checkout [...]