According to National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB) , an employee cannot post an

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According to National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB) , an employee cannot post any think on social media websites which might damage the image of company, its directors, employees , indecent language, any aggressive or offensive post about the company, misbehaviour with client on social media, disclosure of any confidential record and discussion of employment related issues on social media platform. There are many penal provision related with such acts.

An employer should frame a social media policy and employees must be follower to that. An employee may post anything which protects his rights under union membership and related benefits as per the legal boundaries. He might post his personal life related things like gossip with family, friends, independent thoughts etc. But it should not include any thing which connected to any thing of the current working organization. Till date, there is no specific guidelines and mandate issued by federal government as well as any court of laws which specifies all the concerned problems with using social media platform.

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Dawnmarie Souza was fired from American Medical Response (AMR) after using vulgarities to ridicule her supervisor in a Facebook posting. Souza also wrote, using the company’s terminology for a psychiatric patient: “Love how the company allows a 17 to become a supervisor.” (17 is the company’s code for a psychiatric patient.) Ms. Souza filed a complaint with the NLRB for AMR’s retaliatory conduct and interference with her right to organize fellow employees.

What can employees post about their employers in social media and on the Internet?

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