If you leave all your social media passwords belong to us

Gavin83 wrote: »

What does your father do?

It's common for a company to ask you to request their permission if you wish to take up further work and I can see why they'd do this. However I don't see how a company has any right over the work done by other people!

I'd say for him it would be enforceable, for his family members not at all.

For volunteering, seriously? How is that reasonable?

Undervalued wrote: »

If it is made clear, up front, that it is a condition of working there then how is it not reasonable?

If you want the job it is on these terms. If you don't agree work somewhere else.

Some volunteering situations could easily conflict with an employer's business. Extensive other work, paid or otherwise, could well affect an employee's ability to perform their duties.

If it's common (as the post I quoted suggested) the choice may not be there. I've never come across it though. I understand what you're saying about agreeing to it in the contract and would not do so myself (unless the alternative was starving etc of course!). That doesn't mean that any proposed contract is reasonable. It also doesn't mean that any agreed contract is reasonable - rarely are employment contracts between entities with equal power (especially financially) and that skews things. It's also why we have laws and rights you can't just sign away in a contract.

I'm not sure how frequently volunteering and employment conflict - I'm struggling to come up with plausible scenarios, let alone likely ones. Voluntary organisations are unlikely to be competitors of businesses, and any conflict of interest eg in financial work would just be declared in the normal manner? And your latter point is just as true of many common hobbies/pastimes - is it reasonable to expect an employee to ask their employer's permission to partake of those? My opinion is that after my work is done, I should be able to spend my time as I chose provided I can turn up for work ready to go the next time I'm required.

Rosemary7391 wrote: »

For volunteering, seriously? How is that reasonable?

I can think of several reasons why an employer wouldn't want you taking paid work elsewhere including making you too tired for your actual job, potential conflict of interest and even the possibility of you being offered alternative work. All of these would apply equally to voluntary and paid work.

I'm not 100% if it has included volunteering but every job I've had has included a clause about working elsewhere. I had to use it recently in my current job.

shadowqueen wrote: »

I'm currently job-seeking and before I signed an offer I asked for a copy of their employee handbook.

One clause states that upon leaving, you must hand over all LinkedIn contacts made during your employment as well as your personal LinkedIn password.

Another clause states that if you are suspected of having said something "wrong" on your personal social media you must hand over all social media passwords.

This isn't enforceable right? It's contravening most social media's terms of use as it is.

shadowqueen wrote: »

I work in tech and yes I've been in work many years now, moving around every one to two years. I have four offers on the table currently and while this job is on paper the best, it's the only one that's mentioned these things.

If I get sideswiped by a lorry while cycling to work and have to go to hospital do I need to worry about being done for misconduct because cycling is a hazardous activity?

I personally can't believe you're all so willing to hand over all your social media passwords.

I'm going to say something here, that I don't think anyone else has mentioned so far (and possibly be wrong with it too)?
Shadowqueen, I don't want to be rude, but was this some kind of setup question, to see what sort of reaction you'd get?
I ask, because you say you work in tech, so really, you should of been more than aware of the general answers BEFORE you even posted the question?
You work in tech, and you're seriously asking whether you should be giving passwords out or not?!
If you didn't know the answer to that..... well, the mind boggles!
I agree that you may not be familiar with the legal side of things, employment contracts etc, but you should know about passwords!
If they are PERSONAL accts, tell them to f*ck *ff! If they are purely to do with work, then of course you supply those, but then I'd expect them to know the passwords anyway?

I'd also like to know what they'd class as 'suspicion' that you'd said something wrong on social media?!

I know you've mentioned other stuff that I have sympathy with you on, but apart from that.......