Memorandum

General business “The Social Media Case”

TO: supervisor

FROM: consultant

DATE:

SUBJECT: MKE Eats business issues

Purpose

The purpose of this memorandum is to present the ethical issues of employee’s dismissal and to offer a course of action.

Business issues

MKE Eats is faced with an ethical dilemma since the CEO fired an employee because of expressing her payment issues on the media. After employee dismissal, the CEO increased the wages and developed other systemic improvements. MKE Eat sent messages to employees via email informing them about the wages increase as well as other employees’ benefits.   

 Course of action and polices

This is not a good business decision because under the ‘The National Labor Relations Board’, employees have ‘protected concerted activity’ and this means that they have the right to express their concern on matters relating to employment conditions. Employee has a right to expression her concern on issues facing employees within the organization (Miller, 225). In this case study, she informs the CEO on the low wages, the high cost of living and the challenges that enter-level employees face. There are criteria used to determine if employees should be fired for posting business issues on soil media. The federal labor law clearly state that employees should discuss workplace issues including social media posts (Miller, 225).

Policy: To eliminate confusion that exists between employee and employees on what to post on social media, the company should create a clear policy that state:  employees should not post   business confidential information on the internet and should adhere to ethical responsibilities (Miller, 225).

PK presentation

Social media policy

• How to solve social media ethical dilemma
• Employees should not violate the Code of Conduct when using social media
• Employees should understand   the consequences associated with violation of Code of Conduct
• Employees should avoid posting inappropriate information and images
• Employees should not publish business confidential information (Miller, 225).

 

How to solve ethical dilemma and manage social media use

• Look for legal advice and review the National Labor Relations Act before firing
• Set a policy on social media use
• Provide employees with privacy education
• Provide the employees with consequences for policy violation
• Focus on performance while offering discipline
• Develop nondisclosure agreements for confidential information (Miller, 225).

 

 

 

 

 

Work cited

Miller L. Roger. Business Law Today, Comprehensive. Cengage Learning, 2016