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Facebook privacy settings and privacy in the workplace

Since Facebook recently modified its privacy settings, the lines between what is public and what is private in the workplace have become blurred.  As a result, it is more important than ever that employers and employees understand where the lines are drawn.

Many Facebook users (your employees included) face a risk of having private details of lives [...]

Judge dismisses suit where boss texted witness

Today’s Miami Daily Business Review reports on a civil fraud case that Circuit Judge Scott Silverman dismissed after a witness’ boss sent text messages to his employee on the witness stand during trial.

According to the article, chief executive officer Yizhak Toledano sent messages to the company’s chief financial officer, Gavin Sussman, while the judge and [...]

Obama nominates three to NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board is presently composed of Chairman Wilma Liebman (D) and Member Peter Schaumber (R).  That’s right, just two members.  As a result, the NLRB’s decisions have been the focus of judicial scrutiny over whether it has the authority to issue decisions as a quorum of just two.

The President’s picks for the [...]

Employees have an expectation of privacy in email sent from company laptops? Yes, a NJ court says.

A New Jersey appeals court has determined that an employee who used a company owned laptop to send email messages to her lawyer from her Yahoo account had an expectation of privacy in those messages, even though the employer had an electronic communications policy that stated that all communications sent from or using company equipment [...]