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Social Isolation And American Workers: Employee "Blogging" And Legal Reform, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman Apr 2007

Social Isolation And American Workers: Employee "Blogging" And Legal Reform, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman

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This article further demonstrates that state common law exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine are not providing significant redress to employees fired or otherwise disciplined for blogging.


Workplace Blogs And Workers' Privacy, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman Jul 2006

Workplace Blogs And Workers' Privacy, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman

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In this article we focus on a related issue. We discuss the development of blogs, and the virtual “space” where blogs and bloggers interact the “blogosphere” and their impact on the issue of workers' privacy. To some extent it would seem a bit of a contradiction to talk about privacy and blogging in the same article. Blogging, as we will discuss below, does not appear to be the most private of enterprises. There are, we argue, a number of interesting privacy issues raised by the development of blogs as an employee communication tool and by the way employers have reacted …