Book review: 'Employment law and the new workplace in the social media age'

Social media in employment law is an unassumingly dense topic. Part of the difficulty is that there are different and in some instances conflicting interests subsumed by the term social media. The commercial interests of employing entities are juxtaposed with workers‟ expression rights where individuals are now placed in a position to publicize personal opinions in a way not previously available. Further complicating the area is the inherent tension of the medium: the corporate and economic interests served by social media to promote brand names and products compared against the less desirable aspect of putting the company in a potentially actionable position (vicarious liability as one example).