The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently held a meeting to gather information about the growing use of social media and how it impacts the laws the EEOC enforces.
During the meeting, a panel representative from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) explained that employers use different types of social media for
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued joint informal 
guidance concerning the legal pitfalls employers may face when consulting background checks into a worker’s criminal record, financial history, medical history or use of social media. The FTC enforces the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the law that protects the
Hospital employee’s discrimination claims were unsuccessful where termination resulted from HIPAA breach
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