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Should employers be able to fire employees for social media posts?

Should employers be able to fire employees for social media posts?

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Beaudreaux said:
Pretty simple poll, "Yes," "No," or "I'll explain in my post."

I get emails from the company that I have my company's insurance with all the time discussing small business issues to help their customers manage liability and basic business issues. Today I got one that had a link to this article - 5 Cases of Employees Getting Canned Over Social Media - and it got me thinking about what our membership here at DP would think about the basic issue of whether an employer (private or government employer) should have the right to fire an employee for what the employee does on the employees private social media account?

So. What do you think? I think that anything that reflects badly upon the employer that an employee does, no matter whether it occurs on the job or off the job, the employer should have the right to protect itself by firing the employee.
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If that's part of the employment contract, then yes, they should. Otherwise, the answer is no. IMO, any intelligent employer should immediately send out a memo to all associates indicating the official policy on this kind of thing and make it perfectly clear what their standard is.
 
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