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Slaw: Banning teachers from communicating with their students on social media

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

In the age of social media like Facebook and Twitter, school administrators are asking whether such electronic communication is appropriate between students and teachers. They are wondering where boundaries for such communication should be placed. Many school boards are choosing a strict path, forbidding or restricting any communication via social media between students and teachers.

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Tags: Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, Banning teachers from communicating with their students, Conduct and behaviour in the workplace, education, electronic communication, Employee code of conduct, employment law, facebook, one-on-one means of communication, school boards, social media, twitter
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Can employers protect business contacts acquired by employees’ use of social media?

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Consider this: you have encouraged your employee to use online social media during work time to build professional contacts to grow your business. The employee goes ahead and invests time during the workday visiting sites like Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. This strategy proves to be positive; the contacts have been part of the business growth you have experienced. Then, your employee wants to leave the company and move on to another job. Can you, as the employer, ask for the contact information the employee accumulated during his or her employment?

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Tags: business opportunities, Emails, employment contract, employment law, employment relationship, facebook, in the course of employment, LinkedIn, networking, non-disclosure, non-solicitation, personal versus work, professional contacts, restrictive covenants, social media, social media portability, social media sites, social networking, twitter, work-related
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Workplace violence and privacy: what’s the connection?

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

So here’s a question to ask yourself—what are your legal obligations under Ontario law when you see an online photo of your worker committing violent acts?

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Tags: 12th Annual Ontario Employment Law Conference, Bill 168, employment law, facebook, harassment, health and safety, Kelly McDermott, occupational health and safety act, OH&S, OHSA, ontario, policies and procedures, Rioting, social media, Stanley Cup playoffs, Stringer Brisbin Humphrey, termination, twitter, workplace harassment, workplace violence, wrongful dismissal
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A brief understanding of Internet defamation or cyber-libel

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Internet communication through social networking (or social media), such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter, is fast becoming the most popular mode of communication in the 21st century, and has facilitated freedom of expression and speech, globalization of information and even popular revolutions. Many people enjoy posting their personal views, opinions and musings on blogs, chat rooms, newspaper and magazine articles, and other forums on all topics—artistic, philosophical, educational, social, political and legal.

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Tags: Centre for Constitutional Studies, common law tort, cyber-libel, defamation, defamation law, defamation of character, defamatory statement, employment law, facebook, Internet, Internet communication, internet defamation, law, libel, online, slander, social media, social networking, twitter
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Social networking and Internet abuse in the workplace – Learn the latest

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

We’ve written plenty on First Reference Talks about the significant effects—both negative and positive—that online social networking can have on workplaces. Whether its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, news or entertainment blogs or what-have-you, employees are using social media, and increasingly they’re doing it on your time. Employers should be aware of the potential value they can derive from social media, as well as the potential risks.

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Tags: blogs, communication, defamation, employment law, facebook, harassment, Internet, internet policies, LinkedIn, morale, Network Security, Ontario Employment Law Conference, performance management, productivity, security, social media, social networking, social networking policies, Stringer Brisbin Humphrey, termination, time theft, twitter, YouTube
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Facebook: Friend or foe?

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Beware all litigants! Anything you post on Facebook may be used against you in a court of law.

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Tags: Blogging, confidentiality, evidence, facebook, investigation, Judicial system, lawsuit, Myspace, personal information, policy and procedures, social media, twitter
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Are our devices harming our health?

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

I’ve caved. The end of my phone contract has been looming large, and as I pondered my options, somehow I thought, “I’d really like to be more connected.” So I’m ditching my two-year-old, decidedly not smart, flip phone and getting an iPhone—and a data plan. Soon I’ll be able to tweet and update my Facebook status and share photos wherever I am. And I’m afraid.

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Tags: conduct and behaviour, distraction, downtime, employee Internet use, employee relations, exhaustion, facebook, focus, hours of work and overtime claims, Internet, iPhone, multi-tasking, overtime, performance, productivity, risky behaviour, smartphones, social media, stall-call, stress, technology, twitter, wireless
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Multi-tasking: the unfulfilled promise of doing more with less

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

The common meaning of multi-tasking is doing more than one thing at once, like walking and chewing gum. Do you hold several conversations at the same time—on the phone, on Facebook and in person? Do you listen to music or the radio or watch TV or eat lunch while you check your favourite blogs and watch your auctions on eBay? Do you have several work projects on the go, spread across your real and virtual desktops? Is it hard to keep track?

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Tags: distraction, facebook, focus, Internet, multi-tasking, performance, productivity, social networking, television, thermodynamics, time management, training, twitter, virtual desktops, working
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Social media make it easy to create controversy, but smart practices can limit the risk

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Technology usually helps us function by making daily tasks easier, safer, more efficient, and so on. But sometimes a technology comes along that doesn’t simply improve the way we do something, it actually creates a new type of behaviour. I think this is the case with online social networking, which allows individuals to broadcast to mass audiences in a way that wasn’t available in the past. The question remains, however, as to whether this activity makes life any easier! Some have certainly found it just causes them trouble.

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Tags: Canadian Football League, CFL, communications, discrimination, marketing, policy, racism, social media, social networking, social networking policy, technology, twitter
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Angry bloggers beware! – Your anonymity is not guaranteed

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Is your boss or co-worker getting on your nerves? Are you irritated with your neighbour? Do you feel like venting out by writing some nasty stuff about them on Twitter or on a blog? If you do it anonymously, no harm done, right?

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Tags: anonymity, anonymous bloggers, anonymous comments, bloggers, Blogging, blogs, comments, cyber-libel, cyber-trail, cyberlibel, defamation, defamatory, defamatory comments, defamatory statements, disclosure, facebook, internet defamation, Internet protocol addresses, libellous, online defamation, reputation, social media, social networking, twitter, York University v. Ball Canada Enterprises et al
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Online indiscretions… well, you know the story

Monday, July 19th, 2010

We’ve heard a bunch of stories over the past year about companies firing or not hiring employees, or challenging their claims of illness, over inappropriate online behaviour, particularly comments and photos posted on Facebook and other social networking websites. While the media have made a big deal of these cases, none has had the profile of CNN’s recent firing of Middle East correspondent, Octavia Nasr. The US news giant felt Nasr had compromised her credibility by publicly tweeting her respect for a prominent Islamic cleric on his death. The Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah had ties to controversial political action group Hezbollah.

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Tags: CNN, employee relations, employment contract, employment relationship, employment standards, facebook, Octavia Nasr, online comments, social networking, termination, termination with cause, twitter
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Facebook faces privacy questions… again

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has had run-ins with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. And Canada’s not alone; privacy watchdogs in the United States and around the world have been critical of Facebook’s willingness to sacrifice users’ personal data in the name of social media…

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Tags: facebook, privacy, privacy and risk management, privacy by design, Privacy Commissioner, privacy rights, social media, social networking, twitter
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Social responsibility, social media – can’t I just run my business how I used to? (Part 2)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Of course, you can certainly still run your business as you always have, and wait to see if corporate social responsibility and social media turn out to be passing trends. What’s more, maybe you don’t want to be on the cutting edge of marketing strategy—or don’t need to be. It is absolutely up to you.

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Tags: buzzwords, corporate social responsibility, CSR, environment, facebook, governance, interns, marketing, productivity, social media, social networking, social responsibility, social web, strategy, students, twitter
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Social media = time management? (Part 2)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Social media are new, and their value is not entirely clear, especially to businesses that are doing just fine as they are, thank you very much. Heck, it’s even possible that blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other Web 2.0 and social networking services will turn out to be passing fads, in which case, maybe companies that ignore them will have the last laugh on the matter. I don’t know about that, but I will say this: the generation that grew up on the Internet and began to enter the labour market over the last decade is unlikely to want to shift to a way of doing things that doesn’t involve the Internet and its associated applications and gadgets. And their children—well, who can say how connected they’ll be. It would take an extremely authoritarian approach to return to the workplace of our parents, and likely an approach that looks backward rather than ahead. But enough of prediction, let’s talk about some interesting stuff!

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Tags: employment standards, facebook, Generation Y, hours of work, LinkedIn, productivity, social media, social networking, twitter, web 2.0
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Social media = time management? (Part 1)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

To a casual observer, it might appear that time management has fallen to the wayside at many workplaces today: employees work well beyond their scheduled hours, including while on lunch breaks, during leisure time and social events and even on vacation. But with proper scheduling, time management should prevent work from expanding beyond regular work hours—as was the case before the Internet age. Instead, in the “knowledge economy”, where the smart phone rules, scheduled work hours have become nearly meaningless.

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Tags: cellphone use, facebook, hours of work, IT controls, productivity, social media, social networking, social web, time management, twitter, web 2.0
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