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"Social Media Use in the Workplace - Slagging Your Boss"

This post was written by Simon Chester: "Today's New York Times is reporting on a Federal labor relations board decision last week to proceed with a complaint against a Connecticut ambulance service, American Medical Response, that canned an emergency medical technician for breaching a company policy that bars employees from depicting the company "in any way" on Facebook or other social media sites in which they post pictures of themselves.

This is the first case in which the US board has stepped in to argue that employees' criticisms of their companies or bosses on a social networking site will be a protected activity and that employers would violate US labour law by punishing workers for such statements..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 10 November 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).