Social Networking Sites and Employment Discrimination
A recent article in The New York Law Journal discussed that sites such as Facebook and MySpace could potentially lead to employment discrimination cases.
These various social networking sites are chock full of any type of information an employer may use to make a discriminatory employment decision. These sites can easily reveal a person's age, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. Even photographs of an individual consuming alcohol while not at work, under New York Labor Law 201-d, cannot be used by an employer to affect an employment decision.
These new issues, due to the prevalence of the Internet and other technological innovations, further demonstrate how relevant and ever-evolving the field of employment discrimination law is.
