Can the private life of an employee affect their employment?
Posted by Steven Thomas in Managing people, Employment law on Tue, 12/05/2009 - 14:36
- Social networking is blurring the boundaries between business and private life
- Recent cases have highlighted how difficult this issue is
- Incidents may occur outside of the workplace which have a bearing on employee's ability to do their job
Recognising that there is a need to strike a reasonable balance between business and private life, most employers allow reasonable personal use of the internet during breaks and outside normal office hours and will have in place a clearly defined 'internet policy' setting out the acceptable parameters for internet and email use during work time.
What, however, are the implications for employers when, through the internet or other media and sometimes completely by accident, they become aware of certain aspects of an employee's or candidate's private life that, in the normal course of events, they would be completely unaware of?
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