Tribunal update: Large employers dismiss employees over derogatory Facebook comments

HR & Compliance Centre provides a summary and the full transcript of two interesting recent employment tribunal rulings involving:

• the dismissal of an EE Ltd employee who made threats on Facebook to a colleague who had reported him to the employer for frequently referring to his workplace as "Dante's Inferno"; and
• the dismissal of a B&Q customer adviser for comments on Facebook after a bad day at work, including statements that his workplace was "beyond a fucking joke" and that he would be "doing some busting". 

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In the employment tribunals Access the HR & Compliance Centre archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. 

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