Feeling Cyber-Secure: Avoiding The Devastating Hacker
Pro-actively drafting cybersecurity policies and protocols is like doing a will for yourself, or an employee manual for your company. The thought process is that there is nothing imminently pressing...
View ArticleEmployment Law Lessons From Chicken And Rice
Let’s first dispense with the opening hook by asking: Was Rutgers University acting “chicken” when it (finally?) chose to fire Coach Mike Rice only after public outrage over events that took place...
View ArticleFacebook Demand Laws: Closing In On Double Digits
What is in a number? In particular, the number 9? Does it mean anything to you, or symbolize anything in particular? Even the most basic research reveals: In Chinese culture, the number 9 is...
View ArticleEmployees Have Accepted Their Big Brother
Have we finally reached the point where employees not only accept, but actually like when their employers monitor their computer activities? Really? Well, maybe “like” is a bit of a stretch still,...
View ArticleInterview - Retaliation and Social Media
I was recently asked to give a 30-minute interview with Financial Management Network on issues pertaining to retaliation and social media in the workplace. If you are interested (whether in the...
View ArticlePost Summer Part 1 of 5 - Protected Brand vs. Protected Photo
In some respects, the summer of 2013 seemed long. In others, it feels as if Memorial Day and the early June heat wave were only yesterday. But just because this blog went on a brief summer hiatus...
View ArticlePost Summer 2 of 5 - The Rush To Step Back on Facebook Demand Laws
Yesterday began this series of five posts to highlight five developments from this past summer in the area of social media and employment law. In Part 2 today: are legislators acknowledging that...
View ArticlePoetic Justice - 2013 Wrap Up (Part 1 of 2)
This is the time of year to anxiously look forward to all that is anticipated to come in 2014. But it is also the time to look back at all that has happened in 2013. Rather than simply give you...
View ArticleIt's The Relationships, Stupid - 2013 Wrap Up (Part 2 of 2)
It is this time every year, as I am wrapping things up over at “social media and employment law blog” central, that I am reminded of that election campaign more than twenty years ago when Bill Clinton...
View ArticleHappy New Year - Now Don't Let The Ball Drop
Ryan Seacrest paid homage again to Dick Clark. The latest musical crazes performed live from hot spots around the globe. Miley Cyrus thinks we’re still interested (for those who were at some point)....
View ArticleSeahawks or Broncos - Do Employers Care?
I certainly don’t care that much. My team ended its year early, again. However, many people do care, for various reasons. There is, of course, the football game itself and the rooting interests...
View ArticleDeveloping a Corporate Strategy to Address Known Risks
Matt Dunning at BusinessInsurance.com announced some eye-opening news: “Despite its ubiquity in corporate communications and marketing, a startling percentage of companies has no formal strategy for...
View ArticleTwitter Now Too?
Do you generally like what you see in this blog? Do you feel the blog posts are informative and, occasionally, entertaining? I have decided to jump into the world of Twitter to comment on trends...
View ArticleAnother Federal Player in the Social Media Sandbox
There seems to be room in the sandbox for lots of people to play. Recent recesses have seen the NLRB dominate the discourse over the do’s and don’ts when it comes to social media and employment law....
View ArticleGoodbye Precedent, Hello Forced Speech?
The NLRB continues to push for a share of the employment law spotlight. It also continues to act in a way that shows why its “precedent” is truly only “precedent” when the political winds don’t...
View ArticleData Breach Laws Continue to Come
Retail. Financial services. Health care. Energy. Not an industry has been spared when it comes to recent data and cyber breaches, and the colossal damage that occurs to the interests of the company,...
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