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Has social media become a thorn in your side? Don\u2019t cut what you can untie! Moni Attorneys can help navigate an employer\u2019s dilemma with the answers to why, where, when and how to avoid reputational risk.<\/span><\/p>\n The notion of privacy has (to coin a phrase) \u2018gone with the wind\u2019? As such employees dismissed for social media violations who think they can rely on their \u201cprivacy rights\u201d to avoid culpability, should be aware that this is no longer accepted as a defence. Further, in <\/span>Sedick v Kriskay<\/span><\/i>, the CCMA found that if posts are made on social media platforms, they are not private. Remember Penny Sparrow, need a reminder see <\/span>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35226147<\/span><\/a>.Gareth Cliff added his voice to the furore on social media by stating \u201cpeople really don\u2019t understand free speech at all\u201d. This was perceived as support for Penny Sparrow\u2019s view. Due to this perception, there was outrage, as a result Multichoice cut ties with him. In the ensuing civil court case, the court held that the cancellation of the contract was unlawful. But, this was to be a pyric victory for Gareth Cliff. Read what he said: <\/span>https:\/\/www.garethcliff.com\/sparrowgate\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Considering the above, do you need a policy to address the inevitable employee mistake or do you want to firm up the transactional boundaries in the workplace for social media, reach us on 011 646 4558 or <\/span>recepton@moni.co.za<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/lETn1uNCrFw” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|auto|-99px|auto||” custom_padding=”0px||96px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/blog-3\/” button_text=”Back To Blog” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#071075″ button_border_width=”2px” button_border_radius=”100px” button_use_icon=”off” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_margin=”9px|||||”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has social media become a thorn in your side? Don\u2019t cut what you can untie! Moni Attorneys can help navigate an employer\u2019s dilemma with the answers to why, where, when and how to avoid reputational risk. The notion of privacy has (to coin a phrase) \u2018gone with the wind\u2019? As such employees dismissed for social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moni.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}