EditorEmployers who take adverse or retaliatory action against employees for engaging in protected activities while on social media do so at their own peril.
That many employers do not know this is not a valid excuse, and a federal court just affirmed this fact.
A case where another employer was found to have violated the National Labor Relations Act for firing employees over facebook posts was affirmed by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to Connecticut’s FOX 61.
More than a year after the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a Watertown sports bar had violated its employees rights by firing them for comments made on their personal Facebook pages, an appeals court has reaffirmed the groundbreaking decision.
In 2011 a former employee of the Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille in Watertown posted on his Facebook profiles that he owed extra taxes at the end of the year. The posts also bashed the restaurant and its owners.
When the National Labor Relations Board found the bar’s owners had committed an unfair labor practice charge by firing the employees, the bar’s owners appealed the case to the federal courts.
The court agreed with the NLRB. Now, the bar owes the fired employees their jobs back, as well as back pay.
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