Sacked for a facebook status update...any help/thoughts/advice?

PeteHi

Id just delete the update from your profile and deny it, onus is on them to prove it. Even if they had a print out/screen shot it wouldnt stand up in court as it could easily have been forged.

My company warned us all recently about facebook updates, so its obviously something companies are onto.

Like an earlier poster said, its safest not to be facebook friends with any colleagues, Im not.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Even if they had a print out/screen shot it wouldnt stand up in court.

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It more than likely would in a tribuneral & if you lied to one of them & got found out any real claim you had would be worthless.

Zazen999

PeteHi wrote: »

Like an earlier poster said, its safest not to be facebook friends with any colleagues, Im not.

It's safest not to comment about your employer online...

harryhatter

It seems excessive to dismiss , even if it is in contract .Would depend probably on how clear the "rule " was .

However unless he s been there more than a year any fairness or otherwise is probably not relevant as he can`t take an unfair dismissal claim

BigSteveLondon

Yeah I agree with those that say the friend has no leg to stand on.
It's in the contract. My last employer even updated the employment handbook to include webmail like hotmail as misconduct.
The computers are not yours, therefore everything belongs to the company. The logs are checked and they are allowed to go through your email.
The only bad thing about the facebook thing is you could be at home in your own time, and still fall foul of the contract by discussing your employer online.

Damn shame if you get caught out.

brightonman123

the firm pays people to work, not surf the flippin' net, AND then diss your boss!

lulaloo

If his facebook status is set to private, people in his network won't be able to see his status, only his friends. If it's set so that his profile is viewable by his 'friends and my network', people in his network will be able to see it.

Regardless of this, how can a company justify suspension because 'somebody said' that was his status?

The company has no proof and it is his colleagues word against his.

Either you haven't told us the full details or the company is at fault.

chivers1977

we are not allowed to discuss bonuses and therefore this would be a disciplinary offence with my large company.

olly300

chivers1977 wrote: »

we are not allowed to discuss bonuses and therefore this would be a disciplinary offence with my large company.

There is a difference between putting your bonus online in full public view and discussing it quietly among colleagues to find out if you are being discriminated against.

I worked for a company where you weren't allowed to discuss bonuses and salaries, myself and the group I worked with ignored the rule and discovered that that there was some interesting discrimination going on which wasn't based solely on sex.

lpra

From what I can gather a colleague brought it up with a manager, who then had a printout of the offending page. First the update said "Happy that RBS are paying bonuses to those under 25k" - one of his friends is a team leader who told him to change it, and this is what I think has shafted him, it changed to, "his status is nothing to do with RBS, any of its subsiduaries or the mexicans defaulting which got us into this mess in the first place!" - a sarcastic response but one purely in jest. Spoke to him today, reckons the HR dept. are gunning for a sacking. I still think denial has got to be the best policy because there is no way of proving it was him and not his fiancee.