A Manager's Guide to Free Speech and Social Media in the Public Workplace: An Analysis of the Lower Courts' Recent Application of Pickering.
Public organizations are experiencing a burgeoning of workplace challenges involving employee use of social media. Comments, images, or videos ranging from racist remarks, to calls to violence, simple criticism of one's organization, to full on whistle blowing significantly challenge public organiza...
| Publicado en: | Public Personnel Management Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 430 - 458 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2021
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