Social Media Policy & Rights at Workplace - HR Internal Controls

Why Should You Attend:

Whether you who “like” social media or not, very few business managers actually understand social media, and even fewer know what they need to do to maintain control over their employees’ social media use. Even fewer understand the actual law of social media. Attorney Deirdre Kamber Todd will discuss a broad variety of these and other relevant legal topics relating to (1) understanding social media, (2) comprehending the impact and usage of social media on and by employees, (3) formulating and enforcing the necessary policies and practices, and (4) working within the legal requirements that control social media usage.

This webinar will help you understand all the aforementioned and how to have an effective social media plan for your organization.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Working definitions of social media, social networking, and the Cloud
• Employee concerns:
• Policies
• Behaviors
• Restrictions
• Privacy issues
• Branding concerns:
• Copyright issues on websites
• Anonymous postings
• Endorsement issues in “likes” and dislikes
• Applicable laws and governmental agencies:
• NLRA and NLRB
• EEOC
• SCA
• Employment Discrimination
• Review of important litigation involving use and misuse of social media
• Best Practices

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Directors
• Business Directors
• Any CO involved with employee relations/human resources and/or social media

Instructor Profile:

Deirdre Kamber Todd, Esq., is a partner with The Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With fifteen years’ experience, Deirdre focuses her practice on labor and employment law, social media and technology law, HIPAA and business law. Specific areas of her employment law practice include discrimination, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, business contracts, unemployment compensation, LGBT issues, labor disputes, FMLA, military leave, social media litigation, information privacy and technology, agency compliance, and medical record privacy. Her clients include companies, non-profits, governmental entities, and individuals. Her work includes consultative and legal services, from outsourced HR and social media services to hearings, litigation, and appellate work. Deirdre also regularly provides training and education for companies and individuals. Deirdre is licensed to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court; she also has been admitted as an expert witness in social media and networking.

Deirdre is the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions: she was selected as one of the “Top 20 Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Business Journal, she received the Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association, she received a grant from the Public Justice Foundation for her pro bono work on HIV/AIDS, and she was recently nominated as one of the Top Twenty-Five Women of Influence in the Lehigh Valley.

Aside from the practice of law, Deirdre serves as the President and Diversity Chair for Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Lehigh Valley. Deirdre currently teaches as an adjunct professor at DeSales University in the MBA Program in both the HR and Healthcare Concentrations.

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