Jun. 3, 2013
Employers shed restrictive social media policies as more states regulate
With Congress' inability to pass legislation, California and several other states have taken steps to protect employees, including Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois and Arkansas.
Brian S. Kabateck
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Kabateck LLP
Consumer rights
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Brian represents plaintiffs in personal injury, mass torts litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, insurance litigation and commercial contingency litigation. He is a former president of Consumer Attorneys of California.
It is no surprise that as Facebook and Twitter become as central for workplace conversation as the water cooler once was, that various states, such as California, are adopting laws to ensure the privacy rights of employees. Likewise, federal regulators have ordered employers to loosen policies that infringe upon what employees say on social media networks.
California's new law, "Employer Use of Social Media," recently codified Labor Code Section 980, which went into effect at the ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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