From NJBIA.org
Social media is unregulated: Anyone can post anything at any time, and no regulatory agency can stop them. Only the social media companies themselves can control what’s posted, and even then, all they can do is remove a post after it’s public and the damage is done.
Social media is unregulated: Anyone can post anything at any time, and no regulatory agency can stop them. Only the social media companies themselves can control what’s posted, and even then, all they can do is remove a post after it’s public and the damage is done.
It’s natural to think that you cannot have a say about what your employees do on their own time and on their own personal accounts. But you can protect your business’s reputation, provided you let employees know upfront what is expected of them. And that goes for what they do on their Facebook and Twitter accounts, too.
Michael Shadiack, an attorney with the law firm Connell Foley, explained that employers should include employees’ social media activity in their handbook’s code of conduct, and make clear the code of conduct applies to employees even when they are not at work.
“These are the policies that you can utilize if you need to discipline the employee for engaging in inappropriate social media behavior,” he said recently at NJBIA’s virtual program Social Media Use, Misuse and Abuse program.
Read more here.
Michael Shadiack, an attorney with the law firm Connell Foley, explained that employers should include employees’ social media activity in their handbook’s code of conduct, and make clear the code of conduct applies to employees even when they are not at work.
“These are the policies that you can utilize if you need to discipline the employee for engaging in inappropriate social media behavior,” he said recently at NJBIA’s virtual program Social Media Use, Misuse and Abuse program.
Read more here.
