Can Internet Posts Get You Fired?

Time magazine has once again brought up the issue of people getting fired for posts they make on social media sites.

Still, "this case doesn't answer the question of when an employer can discipline an employee just for speaking badly about the company on something unrelated to work," says Gary Phelan, an employment lawyer with the Connecticut firm of Cohen & Wolf. "There are also basic defamation and slander laws under which the employer can sue," and maybe win, if an employee post is defamatory and untrue.

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