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Public Lecture: Managing Social Networking: Risks, Opportunities and Potential Costs

31 January, 2011

Sherbrooke QC, January 31, 2011 – Web 2.0, or link-laden Internet applications based on information uploaded by users, presents both challenges and opportunities for businesses, employees and trade unions. Through the power of applications like Facebook and blogs, workplace parties can reach larger audiences much more quickly.

The law governing these new technologies is still in its nascent stages. While Web 2.0 may well be the next legal battleground between employers and employees, legal principles from other contexts should provide guidance in many areas. Uncharted areas, however, will remain, including where the balance will ultimately be struck between employee and union free speech and privacy rights, on one hand, and the rights and protection of employers’ interests, on the other hand.

What can be said with certainty, though, is that these issues are likely to be the subject of much litigation in the years to come. Ms. Mary Gleason, a partner with Ogilvy Renault practicing in the area of management labour relations and employment law, will review many of the issues that Web 2.0 raises for workplace parties and the law applicable to them.

Managing Social Networking: Risks, Opportunities and Potential Costs

Thursday, February 3rd at 1:00 pm

Cleghorn Common Room, McGreer Building, Bishop’s University

This lecture is free and open to the public

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