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Over the weekend an employee of the Texas Rangers was pretty upset about the University of Texas' dismal performance in its 50-7 loss against Texas Christian University.

Social media and blogging are quickly becoming areas of focus and concern for employers.

I trust that, of all the social media and employment law issues we discuss, you are most sick of hearing about the legislative efforts to prohibit Facebook password demands by employers.

The National Labor Relations Board recently signaled that it will follow acting general counsel Lafe Solomon’s directives aimed at invalidating broad social media policies.

Effective December 1, 2013, employers must comply with New Jersey’s Social Media Privacy Law.

The rise of social media websites has created a host of challenges for employers.

Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee recently signed the 2014 Student and Employee Social Media Privacy Acts into law.

Wow. Front page of the New York Times Business Section. This stuff must be important.

Social media has come to play an increasingly important role in the hiring process of new employees. Employers are scouring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites to weed out applicants. Recent reports have shed further light on this practice.

Employers are increasingly turning to social networking sites to find additional information about candidates.

Shortly after the Littler Report, Workplace Policy Institute: Social Media Password Protection and Privacy -- The Patchwork of State Laws and How It Affects Employers, by Phillip Gordon, Amber Spataro, and William Simmons was published last month, the legislatures of Arkansas, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington passed social media password protection bills.

There is no denying that social media has transformed the way that companies conduct business.

Pier Sixty LLC ("Pier Sixty") employee Perez was upset with his supervisor, Bob McSweeney, who he believed treated both he and his coworkers unfairly and in a demeaning manner.

Christina A. Stoneburner was featured in the Law.com article, "Texas Rangers Employee Shows Why Companies Should Have a Social Media Policy."

According to a recent article, 28 percent of employers report that they have fired employees for using the Internet for non-work-related activity, such as shopping online or checking Facebook, during the workday.

Two weeks ago, I discussed the California case of PhoneDog v. Kravitz, where an employee, who used a company Twitter account as part of his job duties, left the company and continued to use the same Twitter account and tweet to the same followers.

Aaron Weems was featured in "Social Media Restraints Becoming Fixtures in Prenuptial Agreements" on June 26, 2014.