Disciplinary for facebook

[honeybee13]

Hello Stuart. Forgive me for asking, but are you some kind of anarchist? Because that's how your posts read. Do you have a legal qualification?

 

My best, HB

Edited September 11, 2011 by honeybee13

[stuart_coogh]

employees should not be afraid to name and and shame employers for doing something wrong, freedom of choice, are employees supposed to turn a blind eye to the wrong doings of their employers!

[honeybee13]

employees should not be afraid to name and and shame employers for doing something wrong, freedom of choice, are employees supposed to turn a blind eye to the wrong doings of their employers!

 

Sorry, I'm not sure what your point is.

 

My best, HB

[Nystagmite]

employees should not be afraid to name and and shame employers for doing something wrong, freedom of choice, are employees supposed to turn a blind eye to the wrong doings of their employers!

 

My point was, that it's unfair on the employer. I think that if someone does decide to name and shame, then it's only right that they get disciplined for it. Why should someone give them a job, if all they're going to do is slag off their boss and the company?

[stuart_coogh]

as long as the complaint is legitimate then its o.k, people do it all the time, how many people do it on facebook or twitter every day

[Nystagmite]

People doing it all the time doesn't make it ok. I have no idea what good naming and shaming will do, or indeed what your point is?

[Sidewinder]

sidewinder, lets suppose for example the employee knows the employer is doing something wrong, it could be breaching Health & Safety or breaking the law in some other way for example employing new members of staff who are related to existing employees which would be classed as narcism again breaching rules, so could not the employee who knew this was happening use social media to highlight and name and shame the employer

 

No. The law permits the employee to notify the employer of his concerns, or if he feels unable to do this, then to notify the relevant body, so in the case of a potential H&S breach, the HSE or Environmental Health, or for breaches of the law, the Police. Naming and shaming is not the employee's responsibility, for to use your example it could be prejudicial to due process.

 

Since when was employing relatives of existing employees unlawful? More interestingly, why would it be narcissism, which AFAIAA is a personality disorder, or in Freudian terms relates to sexual self-gratification? Or were you thinking of Nepotism? Employing relatives in itself is not an unlawful act providing it can be objectively justified, however if this leads to discriminatory acts then the correct course of action would be through a Tribunal, not TwitFace!!

[Sidewinder]

if its not covered in your contract that you cant use facebook or twitter and you have not signed anything to say so otherwise, then facebook or twitter should be the way forward

 

What is most certainly covered in the contract is an implied duty of mutual trust and confidence however, and a slam dunk case for defamation or libel.

 

The employee's perception of wrongdoing is very often misguided at best, and is plain wrong in most cases. What you are advocating is for an employee to publish their version of events alone across the worldwide web and hang the consequences. Imagine the situation that might arise if the employer decided to post on their own Facebook page that you are a thief without it firstly having gone through an appropriate process...

[andydd]

if people cant post their concerns about their employer on social media then freedom of expression is out of the window is it not!

 

You are perfectly free to post what you like just as you are free to walk up to your boss and insult him...just see what happens to your job afterwards.

 

Actions have consequences.

 

Andy