Yesterday, we looked at the issue of how — and when — text messaging can get you into recordkeeping trouble. But work-related text messaging isn’t the only concern for employers — your employees also might be using Twitter on the job.
How can employee “tweets” cause trouble for employers?
1. If an employee’s communications run through an employer’s servers, network security
2. Employers have no way of monitoring whether employees are disclosing confidential information or trade secrets in their Twitter communications.
3. Like all electronic communications, information that is tweeted during the course of employment may be binding on employers and subject to subpoenas.
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4. As short communications that are often made on the spur of the moment, tweets are vulnerable to misunderstandings and poor judgment, with employees failing to think before they tweet.
5. Like other forms of electronic communication, tweets can be used to make harassing or discriminatory statements for which employers may be held liable.
6. When employees are Twittering, they’re not working.
Consistent enforcement is key
Remind employees who use company property to Twitter that they must comply with your computer use policies. Consistent enforcement of that policy is critical, not only for effectiveness but also to guard against discrimination and retaliation claims.
It may be a digital age…
…but there are still a whole bunch of hard-copy paper posting and notice rules you’re required to meet, throughout the entire span of the employment relationship.
These detailed regulations can easily become traps for the unwary. Failure to comply can result in expensive fines, loss of government contracts and, in some cases, even jail time.
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- How to maintain records privacy
- Paperless records storage
- The records you should keep separate from everything else
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