employee rights

I will counsel the manager on employee rights and the principle of defensive coordinated action, which prevents the employee from harassment by the employer for a specific problem (Brown, 2016). I will thus advise the boss about the consequences of wrongfully terminating the employee and how this would adversely affect the company and also open the door to further litigation (""NLRB Acts Against Firm that Fired Employee for Posting Disparaging Comments on Facebook | Visual Media Alliance,"" 2015). The employee, however, needs to understand the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) policy on negative remarks that an employee makes on social media. If the statements are not true, then the employee could be sued and hence forced to compensate the company (Hemenway, 2012). In this case, the allegations are right, and I would, therefore, beckon the boss to look into the concerns and address them immediately to see if it will influence the performance and the attitudes of the employees.

Topic 2

The employee seems to be violating the guideline provided by the NLRB on the activities of employee’s online. Employees should not make derogatory remarks about their employer or colleagues in a public forum (Twomey, 2013). In this case, the employee has violated that rule, and he risks having a lawsuit. Additionally, by using the company’s name, he seems to breach the organization’s copyrights, and this is illegal (Twomey, 2013). I would hence advice the employee to pull down those remarks and edit his profile so that it is no longer attached to the company’s name. I would further educate the staff on the negative implications of his actions and the possibility of tainting the company’s image. It would be necessary however to have a formal written agreement from the employee detailing his commitment towards avoiding such utterances and violating the company’s ownership rights in the future.















































References

Brown, D. W. (2016). Social media policies for employers and employees: Regulatory and statutory considerations. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 6(4), 45-50.

Hemenway, A. (2012). The NLRB and Social Media: Does the NLRB Like Employee Interests. J. Corp. L., 38, 607.

NLRB Acts against Firm that Fired Employee for Posting Disparaging Comments on Facebook | Visual Media Alliance. (2015). Main.vma.bz. Retrieved 26 October 2017, from http://main.vma.bz/insurance/nlrb-acts-against-firm-that-fired-employee-for-posting-disparaging-comments-on-facebook

Twomey, D. P. (2013). Labor & employment law: Text & cases. Mason, Ohio: South-Western Cengage Learning.