by Editorial Staff | Nov 8, 2022 | Labor-Management Relations, NLRA, NLRB, social media
Late last month, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB’s) General Counsel announced her intention to protect employees from electronic surveillance. Accordingly, on October 31st, 2022, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo on unlawful electronic...
by Editorial Staff | Aug 17, 2021 | Independent contractors, NLRB, social media
The new General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has announced her intention to review recent NLRB legal decisions. Specifically, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wants to target certain legal decisions issued in the last four years by the NLRB....
by Girish Anand | Apr 17, 2018 | social media
After the manager at a Starbucks in Philadelphia had two black men arrested for trespassing when they asked to use the restroom without purchasing anything, the company announced it will close all 8,000 of its corporate locations on May 29 for a racial bias training...
by Girish Anand | Apr 9, 2018 | social media
The term GDPR hasn’t really sunk in on a mass scale in the U.S., but it’s been roiling the social media giants for years as they prepare for May 25. GDPR, the initials for General Data Protection Regulation, is a product of the European Union dating to...
by Girish Anand | Jun 26, 2014 | social media
A survey by Career Builder found that 51 percent of employers who research job applicants on social media end up rejecting them, up from 43 percent in last year's survey and 34 percent in 2012. So what are employers finding on social media that’s prompting...
by Girish Anand | Mar 16, 2014 | EEOC, Personnel Concepts, social media
In 2010, the online world was shocked with reports of employers demanding access to job candidates’ social media sites. At the forefront of these headlines was a story about Robert Collins, an applicant to the Maryland Department of Corrections who was asked during a...
