Social Networking, Privacy, Wetherspoons and the Law

For those of you doing an AMP topic about privacy and social networking, don't forget to look at any relevant legal cases.

In Preece v JD Wetherspoons plc an Employment Tribunal found recently that a pub manager was fairly dismissed for when she made inappropriate comments about her pub customers on Facebook.

This breached Wetherspoons’ internet policy. Many employers are not aware of the risks of commenting on either their customers or their managers !

This behaviour has led to a new phrase....Anti-Social Networking. I think we may be hearing lots more about this in future.

For help with finding relevant law cases ask
alan.bullimore@beds.ac.uk

Flexible Working

Williams, G (2011) Part-time and Flexible working : a new approach Business Review 17 (3) p.30-31

This article in a recent print only publication is a good summary of the popularity of part-time work in the UK, despite negative conotations of the word. A good explanation too of Charles Handy's sc called shamrock organisation :
Core workers
Contracted Specialists
and Flexible workers providing the leaves !

The relevant legal regulations are also looked into, and these could be followed up on our Law Databases such as Westlaw and Lawtel ( without getting too bogged down in the detail )