Lawful Hiring and Termination: Using Social Media as a Part in Decision Making

This webinar will show how you can keep your candidate hiring and termination decisions lawful and purely job-related when using information found on social media sites as part of the process.

Why Should You Attend:

• Is an employer checking social media pages of employees, such as LinkedIn or Facebook an invasion of privacy?
• If an employee tells you about a post that another employee posted that is negative about your organization, what should you do?
• WHat social media information can be used in lawful hiring or termination of employees?
• What are the legal precedents we can use to help us figure out what to do?
• Can Social Media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook give employers insight into a prospective employee's work ethic or frame of mind?

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Need to keep employee selection techniques job-related (federal requirement, with long case history that affirms this necessity.
• Can it be verified that applicants are 100% responsible for everything on their Facebook page?
• What might prospective employers hope to accomplish by reviewing an applicant's Facebook postings?
• Does reviewing an applicant's Facebook postings yield the information that a prospective employer can use to make a more informed hiring choice?
• What might be long-term repercussions of asking for, and searching a prospective employee's Facebook site?