The decision to dismiss three employees for misconduct by their employer for bashing on the wall of a Facebook page has been substantiated by the industrial tribunal Boulogne-Billancourt.
This morning, Friday 19 November, the Council meeting as prud'hommmes tiebreaker (in the presence of a magistrate so professional), held that " pages that mention the words are a means of incriminating evidence of lawful character merits of the dismissal .
Advisors industrial tribunal had failed to decide on the privacy of an exchange posted on a Facebook page (CPH Boulogne-Billancourt, 20/05/2010 ).
This morning, the strictly private nature of the conversations about Facebook was not accepted by the court, stressing instead the public nature of the remarks.
is obviously the fact that words are accessible to many people who justified the dismissal, but it seems surprising that the private club that can represent the "Friends" Facebook has been unsuccessful. It is not impossible that the elements of context will be largely taken into account if similar cases were to come before the courts, namely the number of "friends", the fact that access to the employee's Facebook page is open or limited, etc.. In this case, an employee whose "wall" was the basis of the discussion had chosen to open access to its "friends" and "friends" of his "friends".
Anyway, the greatest caution is recommended for users of social networks too talkative!
CPH Boulogne-Billancourt, 19/11/2010.