Employees are dismissed and prosecuted for improper use of blogs and social networks
An employee of a financial company created a blog. And, unsuspectingly, put information on the balance sheet of the company that
had recently opened its capital. The problem is that the data were different from those submitted to the Securities Commission
(CVM). The company has received a formal warning from watchdog and fired for cause. Increasingly, companies have faced problems
due to misuse of the Internet by their employees. Many cases involve the MSN and social networks -Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and
You Tube – and end up generating actions in court.
The cases of unfair competition also leads to the claim for compensation, according to attorney Ron Vainzof, office Opice Blum
Advogados. Recently, a company sued the competitor because a former employee took with him contacts that conquered the old
job and kept him in their list of MSN. The action still being processed in court.
In another case, the 10th Criminal Law Chamber of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (Id) sentenced former employees who have
used Google to steal customers from the company where they worked. They have registered the company name in Google. So
whenever a Google user searched by company name, appeared to link the competitor where they were working.”Still appeal. But
with that, they were convicted, on appeal, to pay a fine old company, “says the lawyer.
The loss of business with the misuse of the internet can even be scaled. A company with 50 employees that use the Internet to
solve personal problems like paying bills and chat with friends for a period of one hour per day, may suffer a loss of nearly £ 35 000
per month in terms of employee productivity. “Of course, that an hour on the internet is usually fractionated 15 to 15 minutes, for
example,” says digital expert Wanderson Castilho.
His calculation, taking into account an average monthly salary of $ 1,250 was realized from a program available on site
www.brc.com.br . Through the tool, companies can calculate what is the harm caused by the misuse of the Internet by their
employees. Castilho use the program in the processes related to social networks. “With it, the employer can make clear the direct
relationship between productivity and the misuse of the Internet because the employee is not the owner of his time when he is in
the company,” he says.
An employee of a financial company created a blog. And, unsuspectingly, put information on the balance sheet of the company that had recently opened its capital. The problem is that the data were different from those submitted to the Securities Commission(CVM). The company has received a formal warning from watchdog and fired for cause. Increasingly, companies have faced problems due to misuse of the Internet by their employees. Many cases involve the MSN and social networks -Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and You Tube – and end up generating actions in court.
In another case, the 10th Criminal Law Chamber of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (Id) sentenced former employees who have used Google to steal customers from the company where they worked. They have registered the company name in Google. So whenever a Google user searched by company name, appeared to link the competitor where they were working.”Still appeal. But with that, they were convicted, on appeal, to pay a fine to old company, “says the lawyer.
The loss of business with the misuse of the internet can even be scaled. A company with 50 employees who use the Internet to solve personal problems like paying bills and chat with friends for hour per day, may suffer a loss of nearly £ 35 000 per month in terms of employee productivity. “
His calculation, taking into account an average monthly salary of $ 1,250 was realized from a program available on site www.brc.com.br . Through the tool, companies can calculate what is the harm caused by the misuse of the Internet by their employees. Castilho use the program in the processes related to social networks. “With it, the employer can make clear the direct relationship between productivity and the misuse of the Internet because the employee is not the owner of his time when he is in the company,” he says.