Facebook Firing: How To Legally Fire Employees For Their Social Media Posts (2020 Updates)

Duration: 90 minutes Speaker: Melissa Fleischer, Esq

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What can your employees say and do on social media and what can you as an employer do about it.  Social media has raised so many questions for HR regarding what you can and cannot do when an employee posts an e-mail regarding your workplace.  There are many legal issues employers need to understand about what they can do and there are many laws that govern what you can do.  This conference will provide you with the essentials on what you should know prior to terminating an employee for what they say or post on Facebook or other social media.  It will also help you better understand what you need to include in your social media policy to protect your organization from liability. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Action you can take to terminate employees for what they say on social media sites like Facebook and what actions  you should avoid taking
  • Recent activity the NLRB has taken targeting employers who terminate employees for social media site posts
  • Overview of the recent cases on what is lawful and unlawful regarding social media and your employees
  • Summary of other laws that prohibit terminations for lawful off-duty conduct
  • Understanding of what actually constitutes lawful off-duty conduct
  • Best Practices to protect your organization from these legal issues
  • Recommendations for best practices when drafting your Social Media Policy
  • How to Avoid Legal Liability When Drafting your Social Media Policy
  • Recent case studies

Who Should Attend:

  • HR Professionals
  • In-House Counsel
  • Managers
  • Business Owners
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Melissa Fleischer, Esq

Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.

Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.

Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.

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