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Every organisation is potentially at risk of damage - to its reputation, assets, morale and much more - from its employees' use of social media.



In this presentation, employment lawyer Nick Noonan outlines:

• Employers' rights to monitor and regulate employees' social media use;
• Employees' obligations when using social media;
• What to include in a social media policy;
• Employer risks in using social media in the recruitment process;
• The interaction between social media and privacy laws; and
• Recent case law involving social media issues in the workplace.

Employers will increasingly turn to crowdsourcing over outsourcing in the next decade, according to HR experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, who predict social technologies will soon become a driving force in recruitment and corporate innovation.

An employee's failed unfair dismissal claim - lodged after he was sacked over a Facebook rant - reinforces that the concept of the "workplace" is not limited to its physical environment, says employment lawyer Lisa Berton.

"Social learning" is breaking down traditional thinking about staff development and offers employers a much simpler and more cost-effective way to train their people, says Robert Yue.

Here's the thing: Social media, and the effect it might have on your brand, your connectivity, your business performance, your quality of hire, is so intangible, so ethereal, that it would be like trying to catch the wind. The thing is to just do it...

Is it illegal to Google a candidate? Does doing so increase the likelihood of a discrimination claim? Who owns LinkedIn connections? Employment lawyer Nick Noonan answers these questions and more.

Drumming up support for social media initiatives and a referral program was "challenging", but Deloitte Australia now saves about $6 million annually on its recruitment costs, according to recruitment and mobility leader James Elliott.

Workplace s*xual harassment litigation is increasingly following an "alarming formula" that HR professionals should be aware of, says PCS managing principal, Joydeep Hor.

In an age of vicarious liability, employers must be careful to clarify their expectations of employee behaviour beyond the workplace as well as within it, say lawyers Aaron Allegretto and Neil Napper.

Recent court rulings involving employees' social media "indiscretions" provide some guidance, but not certainty, for employers and workers, says employment lawyer Lisa Berton.