Global Employee Terminations In The Age Of Social Media

Law360, New York ( August 26, 2011, 3:22 PM EDT) -- When your employee advises his friends on a Facebook status update that "My boss is a wanker," can you terminate his employment? Can you terminate another employee who tweets to her Twitter followers that "the company is screwing the public again because of shoddy work? " What about the employee harassing a co-worker with off-duty emails, tweets or text messages, following the breakdown of a workplace affair? Or the employee posting cheerful vacation photos on Facebook while on a disability leave for depression? . . .

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