Employers News

A devout Christian who expressed opposition to legalising gay marriage on his Facebook page has won a court case brought for breach of contract against his employers after losing his post as a housing manager and being forced to take a 40% pay cut.

This week California became the most recent state to ban the social media snooping conducted by many employers and universities.

A psychologist in Germany has suggested people that do not have Facebook accounts are "suspicious" individuals. And the psychologist may not be alone in his thinking.

There has been much concern about potential employers requesting Facebook passwords from job applicants at interviews. Now gradually bills are being introduced to put an end to this idea.

Cassopolis - An employee recently found herself suspended after she refused to allow an employer to see her Facebook account upon demand.

There has been much hype in the news lately about potential employers demanding Facebook passwords from interviewees. Much concern has been voiced against this invasion of privacy - two representatives took this concern to Congress without success.

Facebook has issued a post today that warns employers not to ask applicants or employees for passwords. This practice, which has come increasingly under fire in recent months, violates Facebook's terms of service.

In the United States, there are laws that clearly outline questions that employers are not supposed to ask job applicants during the hiring process.

Social networks provide privacy settings as a means for users to have some level of control of what they want to share, but recent trends appear to indicate these settings may be useless in the long-term.

New York - The 14 million Americans still out of work, some of them for up to five years, are being hit with job ads on huge websites like Monster and Career-Builder and even Craigslist that state clearly that unemployed workers are not wanted.