Uh, I don’t know about America, but in Canadian court of law this is illegal.
So long as what you say is not 1) untrue / libel or 2) exposing a company patent or secret, a company cannot forbid you from talking about your job on social media.
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What’s on Twitter?
Why are you so concerned what they tweet? W.H.O.C.A.R.E.S.
seriously.
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Not illegal in America and pretty standard on employee contracts .
Employee contracts often have clauses that are heavy handed and basically not enforceable in court.
Like, many of them say something about not talking about your salary? Totally illegal.
They are relying on employees to be scared and not know their rights.
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If you choose to sign that contract, you’re legally bound by it, regardless of what you may think.
Don’t sign any contract or agreement if you think it’s wrong or be prepared to be bound.
I wouldn’t say standard but not uncommon.
My company even has a Facebook account. However, one employee did get fired because he said something bad about the company. If you are an “at-will” employer, you can fire for any non-discriminatory reason you want.
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No, not true. Just because you signed it does not make a contract legally binding if what they are asking you to do is illegal.
For example, you sign a contract that requires you to rob a store or murder someone. Not enforceable, right?
Same with talking about your salary.
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Yea you are correct … the problem is many industries are pretty small and you are basically killing your career if you bad mouth your employer on social media . Do you think the next company will hire you ?
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So don’t sign that contract then? Solved? You chose to put that signature which is proof that you agreed to it without thinking about it.
How do you think courts will handle that?
The courts handle it the way they should. They throw out the contract because it was never binding.
You cannot ask someone to do something illegal even if they sign their name to it.
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We are allowed to put our place of work on FB for instance … but if we do and I post nude pictures or myself getting wasted , I am risking my job .
I highly doubt any corporation will ask someone to sign a contract that requires anything illegal.
However, the contact can be null/void if forced to sign under duress.
That was a bit if a hyperbolic example, but most people don’t realise that a company cannot forbid you from talking about your salary, even under contract. It’s not binding.
You can sign your name to a lot of stuff, but if the contract includes stuff that isn’t legal, it becomes null and void in court.
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Makes sense however, if you do not have “work friends” on there and your profile set to “private”, you can be protected from that. There have been court cases where someone tried to use what was on someone’s facebook as evidence however, they had no authorization to see their page.
Man I can’t wait for internet historian to make a video on all of this 
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I doubt any company which would want the contract upheld legally in public would put anything illegal on it.
Oh hun, they bluff all the time.
Part of the reason why they underpay employees is so that those employees don’t have the resources to go to court and have those illegalities rectified.
I know a guy who was s contract lawyer for Sony entertainment and it is part and parcel industry standard to put bkantantly illegal stuff in contracts and assume your employee doesn’t have enough money to take you to court.
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There are two parts to this:
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Regulating the companies
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Being aware of what you sign.
That guy calling Asmon an @sshole was one of the most unprofessional things I’ve ever seen. Then you have Lore, and actual community manager spouting off his nonsense on twitter. They should both be fired.
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