A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. worker said he was disciplined for using Facebook to rail against a boss’s “tyranny.” A crime reporter in Tucson, Ariz., was fired for using Twitter to taunt that the city had too few homicides.
The National Labor Relations Board, which acts on unfair labor practices, has reviewed 129 such cases since 2009 involving social media and the workplace, most filed this year, according to a study released Monday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business lobbying group.
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