Prohibiting employees from discussing working conditions could violate law, Prof. Levinson says

Companies that prohibit their employees from discussing working conditions on social media could be in violation of the law. In a Nov. 3, 2017, panel discussion, Brandeis Law Professor Ariana Levinson demonstrated how companies could draft social media policies lawfully.

The panel was part of a conference hosted by Seton Hall University School of Law's Institute for Privacy Protection.

Levinson participated in a panel called “Social Media Regulation by the National Labor Relations Board." The name of the inaugural conference was “New and Nontraditional Actors in Privacy and Social Media Regulation.”

Also on the panel were Judge Jeffery P. Gardner of the National Labor Relations Board; Professor Christine O’Brien of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College; and Orrie Dinstein, global chief privacy officer for Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.

Levinson's research focuses on labor and employment law issues.

Photo courtesy of Seton Hall University School of Law.