By Eric B. Meyer
Over the weekend, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill making Colorado the eighth state to have a social media workplace privacy law. (The others are Maryland, Illinois, California, Michigan, Utah, New Mexico, and Arkansas).
You can view a copy of the new Colorado law here.
The new law places three restrictions on employers with respect to access of employee and applicant social media accounts: Read more…
Last week I got a call from a telemarketer.
I field dozens of calls from salespeople and potential business partners every week, so this in itself wasn’t an exciting occurrence.
What was interesting, however, was the complete misalignment between the centralized IT purchasing services the gentleman on the phone wanted me to invest in, and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies I promote to my team.
This got me thinking. Not about BYOD in and of itself — I’m a fan, and its benefits have been covered extensively, including most recently here on TLNT by Michelle Smith — but rather about who is responsible for advocating for it. Read more…
By Andrea E.M. Stone
The popularity of various social media channels certainly complicates issues for HR managers these days, creating a need not only for them to remain up to date on the latest technologies but also to ensure that policy manuals are updated to reflect current issues and modes of communication.
Take sexual harassment, for example. Despite all the efforts by various governmental agencies to crack down on harassment and bullying in the workplace, they still exist — and now with a new twist because the harassment is not just physical and verbal anymore; it has evolved into the cyber world. Read more…
As an HR professional, mining Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to connect with candidates is likely an integral part of your day.
But similar to you, candidates are relying heavily on social media to learn about potential employers and opportunities, engage in dialogue about jobs, upload profiles and apply to or share positions within their networks. As with consumer experiences, they demand information that is engaging, relevant, targeted, and easy to access.
This participatory environment means HR teams must adapt to ensure their social recruiting processes are designed to help facilitate sharing of content, jobs, and other employment messages to meet these changing expectations among employees. Read more…
By Eric B. Meyer
You see, employment law dorks like me use tools like these to monitor the status of pending employment-law-related bills.
And yesterday, I got a hit informing me that, on Monday, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed this proposed New Jersey bill, which would prohibit employers from requiring employees and candidates for disclosing online usernames and passwords.
Savador Rizzo at The Star-Ledger of Newark summarized Gov. Christie’s reasons for vetoing the bill here: Read more…
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) which helps individuals protect their right to privacy and prohibits an employer from impersonating an employee online when other employees are interacting across social media platforms.
Removed from this bill at the last minute was a provision that would have banned employers from asking job candidates and employees for their social media passwords.
Given the public sentiment on this issue, not to mention the media outcry, this omission is a big surprise to me. Kudos to Congress for not caving to public pressure on this one. Read more…
By Eric B. Meyer
I don’t know much about Arkansas. My knowledge consists of Gennifer Flowers, Wal-Mart, and this handy-dandy iPhone app for harvesting deer. I also hear that the official state beverage is milk.
How about that?
But now I know one more thing: Arkansas has a new social media privacy law, which prohibits an employer from requiring or requesting that a current or prospective employee do any of the following: Read more…
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) debuted some new survey data at their recent Talent Management Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas.
Published on April 11, Social Networking Websites and Recruiting/Selection is interesting. And some of the data may not be what you think.
Employers use social networking sites during the recruitment process as tools to recruit candidates who might not normally apply. Expanding their reach to passive candidates, candidates with specific skill sets and candidates in specific geographies, recruiters seem to be very strategic in their use of social networking tactics and sites. Read more…
If you’re beginning to think every one is using LinkedIn to source candidates, you’re close to right.
Nearly every survey on source of hire or use of social media by recruiters shows LinkedIn to be a key part of the mix; often it leads all the listed social media sites. The company itself reported adding 2,400 customers in just the last quarter of 2012, bringing the total to 16,400 organizations under contract.
Now comes a Bullhorn survey to report that of the 160,000 registered users on Bullhorn Reach, 97 percent use LinkedIn to source candidates. That’s not as surprising as it might seem at first glance. Read more…
By Eric B. Meyer
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA. CISPA provides for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes.
However, the majority vote was not without a speed bump, according to this report from Josh Wolford at WebProNews:
Colorado Democrat Ed Perlmutter attempted to tack on a provision to CISPA that would make it illegal for employers to require prospective employees to hand over their social media passwords as a condition of acquiring or keeping a job.” Read more…
“And that's just reality. An employers HR department can have a written policy, but reality is a whole other . . . ”
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— Cory In Texas on Proposed Bill Would Ban Credit Checks on Employees and Applicants, 5 hours ago
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— Cory In Texas on Proposed Bill Would Ban Credit Checks on Employees and Applicants, 5 hours ago
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