Employers Protect Yourselves From Harmful Blogging
March 1st, 2006
The use of web logs or ‘blogs’, is growing in leaps and bounds. According to the latest survey by the Employment Law Alliance - of which Mello Jones & Martin, Bermuda is a member - perhaps as many as 5% of the American workforce maintain these on-line personal diaries.
Anybody surfing the internet can read a blog and, if invited, leave their own comments for others to read. Some bloggers use these ‘electronic soapboxes’ to vent against their employers and colleagues at work. The survey revealed that 16% of blog users admitted to having posted negative or critical comments regarding their employer, supervisors, coworkers or clients. From this data one can infer that in a company with 120 employees, its likely that there is one employee posting something negative about the company or its employees.
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Mello Jones & Martin is the sole Bermuda representative of the Employment Law Alliance, the world’s largest integrated global practice network comprised of premier law firms distinguished for their practice in employment and labour law. Juliana Snelling specializes in all matters of employment law including the drafting of employment policies and procedures.