Social Media Policy

As an employer, do you have a Social Media policy?  As an employee, do you ever talk about work on your social media platforms?  How many of you have talked about or heard people say “I can’t believe he/she posted that on Facebook!” ?   I am continually amazed at what I see and read on Facebook or other social media platforms.

I attended a fantastic meeting recently where one of the speakers talked about the Postal Clerk who posted some interesting things on Facebook that got her into hot water with her workplace and inevitably got her fired – yes fired.

There is already legislation in the works for some provinces and states and more coming around employers and their ability to take action against employees with regard to items posted on social media platforms deemed to impact the workplace.     …..It’s coming…..

Take a look at two of the articles talking about the Postal Worker incident, her posts and the repercussions.

http://www.moneyville.ca/blog/post/1175594–canada-post-clerk-fired-for-nasty-facebook-posts

http://www.mondaq.com/canada/article.asp?article_id=184054&signup=true