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About HR Esq: The employment-related legal issues U.S. employers face can be mind-boggling. This column provides you with insight and guidance to help navigate the mine-fields of the US labor and employment laws. You’ll find that employers have rights, as well as obligations, and will learn to avoid some of the legal pitfalls that can also thwart company growth and stymie production.
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The Social Media Password Debate: Apparently, in response to the legal cases reprimanding employers for improperly obtaining access to their employees’ and applicants’ personal social media sites, employers came up with what would seem to be a very effective work-around—demanding the passwords or threatening termination or cessation of the application process. Really? read more
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An Employee By Any Other Name Is Still An Employee: Misclassification Woes: In late 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at efforts to halt what they termed “the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” read more
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The NLRB Is Watching Your Social Media Policy Whether You Have a Union or Not: Although you may not realize it, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is usually thought of as protecting the rights of union workers in the U.S., also has the ability to reach into non-unionized workplaces. Most recently, the NLRB has been scrutinizing company Social Media Policies and routinely finding that they violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) section 7. read more
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