UWC researcher says employers should establish comprehensive and clearly articulated social media policies [SOUND]

# A researcher at the University of the Western Cape, Heike Hartnick, has interrogated the legal parameters of people being dismissed for misconduct outside of an employer’s premises and working hours. She says employers in South Africa should establish comprehensive and clearly articulated social media policies. Hartnick says says these policies should define acceptable and unacceptable conduct, outline disciplinary consequences, and ensure employees are trained and informed about these expectations: