Social Media and Your Company: Dos, Don'ts, and OMGs!

This program is designed for human resource professionals, in-house counsel and business owners.

With the explosion of social media in recent years, the line between employees' business and personal lives has grown increasingly blurred. Employers must clearly understand when, if, and how they can manage employees' personal behavior in the social media universe. In this highly interactive session, our attorneys will lead a group discussion on topical scenarios that examine the legal, regulatory, technological and social issues that are dramatically reshaping the modern workplace and review practical ways of dealing with increasingly common issues such as:

• An employee embarrasses herself on social media such as Facebook or Twitter and is now the number one topic of conversation—and distraction—among other employees. What can you do?
• Should supervisors "friend" subordinates on social media? Or does that potentially give the employer too much involvement in and knowledge of the employee's private life?
• Exactly what can an employee say about his company online? What control can the employer exercise over employees' online and electronic lives?
• Can employers prohibit employees from engaging in political or religious activities using company electronic resources? What if employees are doing it on a company-provided device, but on their own time?
• If you use technology such as video cameras in work areas and GPS tracking devices in company vehicles to monitor and/or control behavior, what are the possible legal consequences—and are they worth it?
• What are the potential wage and hour implications of texting, IMing, or communicating with employees via social media or electronic devices after regular work hours?
• Can posting on Facebook or other social media be protected activity?
• Should employees be prohibited from using technology like smartphones to videotape or record workplace interactions with coworkers or supervisors?

Please register by February 3, 2014, as seating is limited.

Breakfast & Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am

Program: 8:30 am – 9:30 am

Location:
Lichterman Nature Center
5992 Quince Avenue
Memphis, TN

Continuing Education: 1.0 PHR/SPHR credit is approved, CLE credit is pending.

Questions? Email Kellie Nurko or call (973) 848-4752