Social media has presented a plethora of potential challenges for employers. Should you follow your employees on Twitter? How should you handle an employee’s offensive personal tweets? Should you fire an employee for airing his grievances on Twitter, complaining about wages, and circulating a petition alleging workers couldn’t take breaks?
While the answers to those first two questions are up to you, the third has just been decided by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB recently ruled that Chipotle violated federal labor laws when it fired an employee over tweets that the burrito chain claimed were in violation of its social media policy.
