Social Media and Recruiting - Legal Considerations for Every Employer. Renee Jackson - an employment attorney from Nixon Peabody - discusses the key legal issues to consider when leveraging social media for your recruiting efforts.
64. Connecting with professional contacts via LinkedIn could be a violation of a former employee’s non-solicitation provision
65. New employer could find itself with a new employee embroiled in litigation, or worse, on the receiving end of a claim for tortuous interference with contract (aiding/abetting breach of restrictive covenant)
99. Don’t friend or connect to applicants only to see more personal information
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102. Discrimination claims – including class claims – may arise from discriminating against an individual or group of individuals based on protected class status during the hiring process
103. Make sure those responsible for hiring know applicable protected classes