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Article by Prof Virginia Mantouvalou on employees using social media quoted in Financial Times
16 December 2019
A paper authored by Professor Mantouvalou has been quoted in a news article on the impact of social media on work, published in the Financial Times today.
A journal article by Professor Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at 果冻影院 Laws, has been quoted in the news article entitled 鈥樷��.
It refers to an academic article Professor Mantouvalou published last year (), which discusses why employers in the UK may want to control employees鈥� social media activity 鈥� for example, in instances where it may negatively affect the workplace鈥檚 performance and reputation.
The article also discusses how policing employees鈥� social media posts may interfere with workers鈥� rights to privacy and the right to freedom of expression; and how accusations of social media breaches 鈥渕ay provide a perfect excuse to fire someone for unrelated underperformance鈥�.
The argument of the article is that both the right to private life and the right to free speech are implicated in dismissals for social media activity, and that these dismissals should be viewed as lawful in very limited occasions, because employers should not have the right to censor the moral, political and other views and preferences of their employees even if it causes business harm.