Social Media & Electronic Policies within the Workplace

A recent article on IOL reported that a Toyota SA Motors employee has been suspended following threats and insults he allegedly made on social media. Did you know that if an employee has stated your company as their place of work on a social media platform, their comments and posts could result in your company being directly affected? 

Did you know that if an employee has stated your company as their place of work on a social media platform, their comments and posts could result in your company being directly affected? 

Join our legal expert, Angus Bailie, as he discusses how you can protect your company image from a social media crisis.

Angus will give clarity on your rights and responsibilities as an employer and answer questions like: 

• What are the dangers of social media to your company?
• Can an employer restrict social media or access to social media in the workplace?
• Can an employer place restriction on how an employee uses social media even outside the workplace?
• What limits can be set?
• What policies and steps can be put in place to protect the company?
• How can Social Media be used to benefit the company and/or employer / employee relations?

MORE ABOUT ANGUS:

We love doing webinars with Angus. He has a wealth of knowledge that he generously shares this with attendees. This coupled with his dry sense of humour make Angus’s webinars both highly valuable, informative and entertaining. Angus is an admitted attorney with over 20 years’ experience, 10 of which have been in his own law firm. Angus’s experience includes being appointed as an Acting Judge in the Labour Court in 2017. He has lectured part-time for the faculties of Law and Science at Pearson Institute and the faculty of Law for the University of the Free State and is a SETA accredited facilitator and trainer.