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Employers Need Blogging and Social Networking Guidelines

Social Media in the Workplace

As an attorney working with companies whose employees use social media on a daily basis I have observed that companies often react after problems occur instead of dealing with new technology proactively through sensible employee policies.  Whether employees are twittering, texting, facebooking, or blogging, employee handbooks may now need social [...]

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 [...]