By Constantine Mittendorf
Want to remove bad reviews posted on Yelp that are hurting your business? Want to win a half million dollar judgment against a malicious reviewer? Here’s how one person did it – and they did it without suing Yelp.
Firing Staff Who Call the Boss an “A*#hole” or “Like” Such Criticism on Facebook
By Allegra A. Jones
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently decided that a sports bar in Connecticut violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it terminated two workers for commenting on and “liking” a Facebook post. Specifically, an employee posted a derogatory “status update” noting that the owners of the bar “can’t even do tax paperwork correctly,” since employees owed more in state income taxes than they expected due to a tax withholding error. The post initiated a series of comments which the boss was called an “asshole.” The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found, and the Second Circuit affirmed, that terminating the employees due to their Facebook activity was unlawful. (Three D LLC v. NLRB (2d. Cir. 10/21/15) Case #14-3284, appealed from 2014 NLRB LEXIS 656 (8/22/2014).) Continue reading “Firing Staff Who Call the Boss an “A*#hole” or “Like” Such Criticism on Facebook”