I hope you had a very happy holiday season and New Year. Both seem to be distant memories at this point. Many of the upcoming posts in 2017 will undoubtedly address, and be impacted by, the nature of the new…
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Erecting a Legal Defense Through Social Media
Tagged with: harassment, New York Employment Law, selfies, Social Media And Employment Law, Social Media Blog, Workplace
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The Power of Autowrong in Life and Employment Litigation
Are you tired of people refusing to take accountability for their actions? Tired of excuse after excuse for potentially offensive words? Sick of folks blaming grammar lunacy on their iPhones? If you answered “yes” to all three questions, please join…
Tagged with: autocorrect, autowrong, discrimination, New York Employment Law, reply to all, retaliation, Social Media And Employment Law, University of Cincinnati, Warmack
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Beware the Facebook Settlement Disclosure
We continue to toe the line between privacy rights and social media activity. Typically, though, it’s the employee looking to protect the privacy principle. Not this time. In the context of settlement agreements in employment lawsuits, employers generally have the…
Like It Or Not, Your Employees Can Like It
It gets boring to blog just about the NLRB. We need some judicial action to get the juices flowing a little more. We got a little something last week. Question: Is merely clicking the “like” button on Facebook tantamount to…
Tagged with: Facebook, like, New York Employment Law, NLRB, Protected Concerted Activity, Social Media And Employment Law, Social Media Blog, speech, Triple Play Sports Bar
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WTF?!
WTF already?! As in, “where’s the fairness?” Time for an acronym update from our favorite government acronym, the NLRB. You will certainly remember that we have recommended asking yourself three questions before determining whether the NLRB would have a problem…
Tagged with: New York Employment Law, NLRA, NLRB, Pac Bell, Protected Concerted Activity, Social Media And Employment Law, social media blow
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Are You A Nasty Mother Fu*ker?
I don’t know if you are or aren’t. That’s probably for a different timeforhardselfassessmentlawblog.com (wish I had purchased that domain). However, I do know that your employees apparently can call their manager a nasty mother fu*ker (is the asterisk still…
Tagged with: Facebook Firing, New York Employment Law, NLRB, Pier Sixty, Protected Concerted Activity, Social Media And Employment Law, Social Media Blog
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Too Many People Using Social Media?
Well, maybe there aren’t too many people using social media in general. But, perhaps, that is the lesson to be taken from a recent federal court decision that addressed the intersection of one statute’s purpose and the reality of social…
Tagged with: Facebook, FLSA notice, New York Employment Law, notice on social media, service by social media, Social Media And Employment Law, Social Media Blog
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“You’ve Got Served!”
Pardon my witty little play on “you’ve got mail!” from 1998. Remember when that booming AOL voice – and what was the 50th movie teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan – seemingly reflected the start of the Internet communication age? …
Tagged with: Facebook, New York Employment Law, service of process, Social Media And Employment Law, Social Media Blog
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NLRB Still “Likes” Expansive Employee Speech
Unlike many issues, it seems that at least one issue (so far) has the NLRB on the same page as a recent court decision: whether clicking “like” on Facebook amounts to substantive, protectable speech. In my earlier blog posts on…
Tagged with: employment law, Facebook, like, New York Employment Law, social media, Social Media Blog, speech, Triple Play Sports Bar
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For The Love Of G-D, Don’t Say You Love Me
We have come to this in our workplaces, in the lyrics of Annie Lennox: “No more ‘I love you’s.” Please enjoy today’s guest post from one of your employees: I have difficulty getting close to people. I have trouble expressing…
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Social Media Employment Law Blog is devoted to the interplay between social media and employment law, an extremely topical and significant area of law for employers in this new technology era. Published and edited by Michael Schmidt, Vice Chair of the Labor & Employment Department, Mike concentrates in representing management in all facets of employment law and has been frequently quoted on employment law topics, and is regularly interviewed by trade publications and national journals for his opinions on legal trends.
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