THE CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER'S RESOURCE FOR WORKPLACE SOCIAL MEDIA ISSUES
A New York federal court recently held that a plaintiff that was terminated in part due to a threatening Facebook post could take his retaliation claims to trial. The plaintiff, Richard Verga, worked as a paramedic for Emergency Ambulance Services, Inc. After Verga experienced what he claimed were unwanted sexual advances from another paramedic, he immediately
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) recently found that a news media policy issued by Phillips 66 violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA, which prohibits employers from interfering with the exercise of employees’ rights to organize. The ALJ’s decision addressed the “News Media Guidelines” issued by the company in late 2012. The guidelines were sent
In a recently released Advice Memorandum, the NLRB Office of the General Counsel provided some further guidance on how provisions of an employee social media policy could run afoul of Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA. That Section prohibits employers from interfering with the exercise of employees’ rights to organize under Section 7 of the NLRA.