College of
Business
Administration
College of
Business
Administration
1. What are employee privacy rights?
2. Do employers have an obligation to set computer/blogging guidelines for their employees?
3. What legal and/or moral obligations does the employee have to their employer?
4. Simonetti claimed that there were many blogs of male Delta employees that including pictures of them posing in uniform. When it comes to posting pictures online, is there a double standard?
5. At what point does a blog go too far?
6. How could Delta’s policy have been improved? Was their policy known to their employees?
7. What should reasonable blog policy be?
8. To what extent does personal blog content have to be related to work before it crosses the line?
a. What if Simonetti had posted the same photos, but in regular clothing?
b. What if her pictures had not been taken on an airplane?9. What rights do we have to freely express ourselves?
10. Where does the employer’s control over employee behavior, space, time, and property begin and end?
11. What freedoms and liberties do employees have with employer property rights?
12. What rights do employers have to protect their private property, earnings, and cost from employees?
13. Are employees obligated to be a “representative” of their employer 24 hours a day or just while on the job?
14. Is there a possibility that Delta could have fired her for PR reasons as opposed to quietly giving her a warning? If so, how does that invade her right to privacy? Do people’s right to privacy end when they post on an internet site that is viewable by the public?
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