{"id":897,"date":"2007-03-30T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalbytes.ignite.lexblog.com\/2007\/03\/employee-blogging-may-subject-employers-to-liability\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T20:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:32:52","slug":"employee-blogging-may-subject-employers-to-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalbytes.com\/2007\/03\/30\/employee-blogging-may-subject-employers-to-liability\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Blogging May Subject Employers to Liability"},"content":{"rendered":"
The FTC<\/a>, in a recent advisory opinion, highlighted the possibility that a seller\u2019s failure to disclose the connection with an endorser could result in a violation of the FTC Act. This opinion has legal implications for blogging by employees, even on personal time and even if the company is unaware of the employee\u2019s activities. Employees should be advised to strictly abide by their employer\u2019s blogging policy, and if they blog about a product, they must identify their employment status. What? You don\u2019t have an employee blogging policy? Shame on you. Come get one. Come to Rimon<\/a>. Need to know more? Read our Labor & Employment<\/a> e-flash bulletin “According to the FTC, Employee Blogging May Subject Employers to Liability<\/a>” and contact the authors, Angela M. Washelesky\u00a0in our Chicago office<\/a> or Sara A. Begley <\/a>in our Philadelphia office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The FTC, in a recent advisory opinion, highlighted the possibility that a seller\u2019s failure to disclose the connection with an endorser could result in a violation of the FTC Act. This opinion has legal implications for blogging by employees, even on personal time and even if the company is unaware of the employee\u2019s activities. Employees…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[82,215,297],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n