Purpose
Our company acknowledges its employees, contractors and sub-contractors have the right to contribute content to public communications on websites, blogs and business or social networking sites not operated by our company . However, inappropriate behaviour on such sites has the potential to cause damage to our company, as well as its employees, clients, business partners and/or suppliers.
For this reason, all employees, contractors and sub-contractors of our company must agree to not publish any material, in any form, which identifies themselves as being associated with Company or its clients, business partners or suppliers.
Scope
All employees, contractors and sub-contractors of our company must also refrain from posting, sending, forwarding or using, in any way, any inappropriate material including but not limited to material that:
is intended to (or could possibly) cause insult, offence, intimidation or humiliation to our company or its clients, business partners or suppliers;
is defamatory or could adversely affect the image, reputation, viability or profitability of our company, or its clients, business partners or suppliers; and/or
contains any form of Confidential Information relating to our company, or its clients, business partners or suppliers.
Policy Statement
All employees, contractors and sub-contractors of our company must comply with this policy. Any breach of this policy will be treated as a serious matter and may result in disciplinary action including termination of employment or (for contractors and sub-contractors) the termination or non-renewal of contractual arrangements.
Other disciplinary action that may be taken includes, but is not limited to, issuing a formal warning, directing people to attend mandatory training, suspension from the workplace and/or permanently or temporarily denying access to all or part of our company‘s computer network.
Documentation
- Performance review report
- Memos and Memorandums
- Written Warning
Definitions
Social Media includes all internet-based publishing technologies. Most forms of Social Media are interactive, allowing authors, readers and publishers to connect and interact with one another. The published material can often be accessed by anyone. Forms of Social Media include, but are not limited to, social or business networking sites (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn), video and/or photo sharing websites (ie. YouTube, Flickr), business/corporate and personal blogs, micro-blogs (i.e Twitter), chat rooms and forums and/or Social Media.