Social media shows no signs of going out of fashion. By now the
business community is well versed in the commercial advantages of
social networking; sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
offer exciting and innovative ways for businesses to thrive. With
over 200 million users, LinkedIn claim to be adding 2 new members
per second; this speed of change raises a number of issues for
employers, for example:
- Business Protection
- The ownership of data created during the course of work on
sites such as LinkedIn
- Restrictive Covenants and social networking solicitation.
In a
previous article Dougherty Quinn ("DQ") highlighted
the need for businesses to incorporate a well drafted social media
policy into company staff handbooks; 18 months later we stand by
this advice. The IOM Employment Tribunal has still not had an
opportunity to directly consider the impact of social media;
however there have been a number of decisions of the English
Employment Tribunals
