NLRB Sides With Tucson Paper In Employee Firing
The National Labor Relations Board has found that an employee fired for posting “inappropriate” tweets didn’t have his labor rights violated, reports ABA Journal.
The reporter, formerly of the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star, tweeted in 2010 criticizing one of the paper’s headlines. HR said to “discuss his concerns with colleagues rather than his Twitter audience” and the reporter’s boss told him “he should not make comments on social media that could damage the paper’s reputation.”
The reporter made no more social media comments about the newspaper, which, ABA Journal says, didn’t have a written social media policy though it encouraged staffers to use Twitter.
But later tweets, about Tucson’s homicide rates and criticizing other media outlets, landed him in hot water a second time.*
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