Well, no one who has been reading this blog should be surprised by the news tonight out of the General Assembly.
Indeed, I’ve written about proposed bills that limit employer access to employee’s personal online account for years now with a lot back in 2013. (See prior posts here, here, here
There’s been little press over what is going on at the Connecticut General Assembly this spring.
With no big employment law issue (other than minimum wage) dominating the headlines like Paid Sick Leave in the past, you might think that there isn’t much happening.
But as the Connecticut Business and Industry Association highlighted in a
I told you so.
It’s not very often you can say that. It is rarer still to have documented proof. But back in 2008 — when nobody was focused on Facebook and there were fewer of you reading this — I said this about using Facebook to screen employees:
Overall, employers should tread very carefully