Facebook Pitfalls - Webinar Recording CD

Facebook Pitfalls: How to Avoid Legal Risks Relating to Popular Social-Networking Websites

Our expert – a seasoned labor and employment attorney – will explain how the latest legal developments may affect your right to use Facebook and other social-networking sites to conduct background checks, and will discuss the limitations on Facebook usage so you don’t violate workers’ privacy rights or antidiscrimination laws.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The do’s and don’ts for using Facebook to conduct “background checks” on applicants and employees
• The essential language to include in your policy on Facebook and other social-networking tools
• The legal liabilities you could face if you’re not careful about how you search employees’ and job applicants’ Facebook pages
• Why supervisors should not be online “friends” with subordinates - and other thorny pitfalls to avoid
• How the potential EEOC guidance related to GINA’s “watercooler exception” could have a major effect on how employers use Facebook and other online sites
• When it’s unacceptable to discipline or terminate a worker because of Facebook posts, and when taking adverse employment action may be warranted
• The risks of providing online recommendations via LinkedIn
• The risks of confidentiality breaches by your employees’ use of Facebook

This webinar was recorded on Tuesday, February 23, 2010

About your Speaker:

Galit Kierkut, Esq., is a partner in the Woodbridge, New Jersey, office of Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis, LLP. She concentrates her practice in employment litigation and counseling and complex commercial litigation and conducts internal investigations regarding employee harassment and discrimination complaints, conducts human resources audits, and performs management and employee training to identify and resolve concerns in policies and practices, performs management and employee training, mediates internal employee disputes, and counsels her corporate clients generally regarding compliance with state and federal employment laws. She also drafts employee handbooks and contracts. Her employment litigation practice is primarily focused on resolving claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, and employment contract disputes in state and federal courts and before the EEOC.

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