Employment and Migration Blog

Principal Lawyer Stephen Booth has written about the recent Comcare V Banerji case, involving a public servant who anonymously criticised the Government on migration policies and asylum seeker detention on Twitter. This case sheds some light on an employer’s rights to enforce a code of conduct with respect to conduct outside work.

With the recent termination of Scott McIntyre from SBS due to his inappropriate Tweets on ANZAC Day, it highlights now, more so than ever, that as an employer you should be educating your staff on the appropriate usage of Social Media in order to minimise the likelihood of your employees using it to the detriment of themselves and or the reputation of the company.