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Ireland employer social media policy precedent: work and personal use, approved platforms, monitoring, recruitment vetting, GDPR and data protection, account ownership, disciplinary action

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Precedents

1 Introduction

This Precedent sets out a social media policy for employers to apply to employees and other workers, covering business and private use of social media, permitted platforms, monitoring and conduct matters. It is intended for inclusion within an employee handbook, or also for use as a stand-alone policy. It takes account of:

Regulation (EU) 2016/679, EU GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (Ireland), and
Although the Article 29 Working Party Opinion is mainly founded on Directive 95/46/EC, the Data Protection Directive, it also looks towards the obligations under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, EU GDPR.

The Article 29 Opinion considers separately the review of an individual’s social media profile:

during the recruitment process and
during employment

Paragraph 1.1—Introduction: reference to internet, email and communications policy

For a sample internet, email and communications policy, see Precedents: Ireland—Policy—internet, email and communications or Ireland—Policy—internet, email and communications (short form).

1.1 The Company acknowledges that the internet and social media platforms are used as means of communication both at work and at home. This policy explains the standards we expect staff to follow when using social media, and the situations in which the Company will monitor staff activity on social media where appropriate...

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