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Labor Board: Fired-For-Facebooking Employees Must Be Rehired | TechCrunch

We hear a lot about people being fired for the conversations they have on Facebook, but this is the first time we have seen the National Labor Relations Board order someone be rehired. Here the judge claims the Facebook conversation in question was “well within the bounds of normal discussion of workplace conditions” and should not constitute grounds for immediate termination. Is this a shift in trends towards social communication being judged as little more than water cooler talk or a one-off occurrence? Tell us your thoughts.