Fired Over Facebook Post
Can your Facebook status messages get you fired?
After a ruling on a current legal battle, they may! In a recent ground-breaking case involving social media usage by employees, specifically Facebook, one woman is challenging the cause of being fired. The National Labor Relations Board has brought a case against a Connecticut ambulance service, American Medical Response, for firing an employee after she used Facebook to vent her work frustrations. The employer accused the employee of violating their privacy policy by posting a disparaging remark that read, “love how the company allows a 17 to become a supervisor” – a 17 is the term they use for a psychiatric patient.
