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Do Employers Have Any Recourse When Employees Post Vulgar Remarks on Facebook?
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30183
Subject(s) - wonder , nothing , social media , business , public relations , sociology , law , political science , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology
Many employers wonder if they must sit by and do nothing when employees post highly critical or even vulgar or profane criticisms of management or the company on social media. Unfortunately for employers who would like to prohibit this type of posting, the National Labor Relations Board in a series of recent rulings has held that employees have wide latitude to criticize their employers on social media.