Hello my friends!
Today I will be talking about an article that I found from
the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and talks about a hot topic being discussed:
employers asking or demanding the social media passwords from their employees.
The article first gives a great overview of the problem. The problem, as the
article tells us, is that employers are looking to hire people and know they
are trying to hire the right people, but feel that they should take a deeper
look into their employees before they decide to take a risk and hire them to
represent their company. The article then goes into discussing some of the
various reactions that a potential employee could do if this were to happen to
them. In the article, they talk about that the most effective way for the
employees to react is to take the employees to court. By taking legal action
and bringing this to the courts attention really is the best course of action for
employees wanting to be hired. It is totally wrong for employers to do this to
their future employees or even current employees because this puts them into a
really hard situation. Do they lie to their employers and say they do not own a
social media page or do they give them their passwords and risk that they find
something worth firing you over. Again, it really is difficult because they are
doing this in their own time and should not be required to do this. Hopefully
soon it will all work out!
Stay safe my friends!
PJ
I have recently noticed that this has become more and more popular with employers. I do not think that they have a right to do that and agree that legal action should be taken.
ReplyDeleteI talked about this awhile back. It is a total breach of our individual freedoms. Truly despicable.
ReplyDeleteThis has become a hot topic of late and many people are really starting to discuss this of late and rightfully so. No one should be allowed to do this and like mark said, it is a total breach of our individual freedoms.
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