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By Jon Hyman
Mar. 13, 2014
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a public meeting on the use of social media in the workplace, and its impact on the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws yesterday. The commission heard testimony that addressed issues such as recruitment and hiring, harassment, and discovery.
According to EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien, “The increasing use of social media in the 21st century workplace presents new opportunities as well as questions and concerns. This meeting has helped the EEOC understand how social media is being used in the employment context and what impact it may have on the laws we enforce and on our mission to stop and remedy discriminatory practices in the workplace.”
Commissioner Victoria Lipnic added, “As policymakers and regulators, it is our challenge, and I believe our responsibility, to do all that we can to ensure that our interpretation and administration of the laws within our charge are as current and fully-informed as possible.” Thus, the EEOC held the meeting to gather information, not to provide guidance.
Rather than summarize the hours of testimony (which you can read for yourselves here), I want to focus on the following question that the EEOC posed on Twitter (where else) during the meeting:
".#socialEEOC CH Berrien asks: Are these issues truly new or old #EEO issues with new technology? Comm. Lipnic begins opening remarks. #EEOC"
The answer is that these legal issues are not new; all that is new is the communication media impacting those legal issues. For example:
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