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Social Media

Jan. 1, 2012

Time to Review User Policies

Employers’ social media policies that were written more than a few months ago should be reviewed in light of new NLRB guidelines.

In light of guidelines issued recently by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), companies should review and amend policies on employees' social media use, if these rules are more than a few months old. These policies now could be perilously overbroad, especially if they were modeled after samples taken from the Internet. Here are three things to keep in mind:

Financial Risk

An overly broad social media policy could hurt a company's bottom line if it is ...

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