"The Complete Tweet: Developments in Social Networking and Employment Law," Social Media in the Restaurant Business: Know Your Rights, San Francisco

Riley Lagesen of the Davis Wright Tremaine restaurant industry practice group and a panel of other knowledgeable DWT attorneys discussed how restaurant operators can manage the challenges presented by social media.

Discussion topics included:

Social Media in the Workplace

• Can you control or monitor employee use of social media?
• What can you do about disparaging e-mails or postings by employees?
• Do you need to worry about employee privacy?
• What about union organizing through social media?

Free Speech vs. Defamation

• What speech is or is not protected?
• The elements of defamation

Liability of websites for posting third-party content

• Making Social Media Work

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