Social media What you don't know can hurt you

Streaming video - 2014

As postings on social media have routinely replaced conversations over lunch or around the water cooler, workers have filed almost 100 social media-related complaints against employers with the National Labor Relations Board. Mich'l Schmidt, a partner at Cozen O'Connor P.C., counsels you on what policies should be in place to protect your company's interests and its reputation. Track: Straight talk straightforward explanations of key technologies and their business value. Learning objectives: Determine how social media is changing the workplace. Identify why companies need to have a social media policy. Distinguish between "concerted" and "protected" activities. Explain why companies cannot uniformly rely ...on information from social media in making hiring decisions or in taking employment actions. more