Lewis Maltby is president of the National Workrights Institute, nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on the human-rights issues in the workplace. In this time and age, it would make common sense to dictate that employees would have their privacy when it comes to social media and the internet. Well Mr. Lewis believes that employers don’t need to monitor every day to day thing in their social media or in the emails. He strongly believes that the only reason an employer should monitor any employees social media is when there is reason to believe that the employees are engaging in illegal activities. Internet fishing is when a person goes online and searches for specific information about a person or group of people to see if the find anything. He admits that employers are human and cannot avoid offended when they see something on their employees social media, if they have different points of views or values. When employers use factors like social media when they have potential hire that can hurt more than help. Mr. Lewis states companies need to hire the most qualified applicants and not reject someone for disagreeing on their personal life. In Mr. Lewis’s view doing internet fishing places the companies and the employers at risk of liability. Information about the applicant before meeting them person could raise red flags on the employer’s head that could make them bias on applicants, this could mean discrimination charges and lawsuits on the …show more content…
My opinion will always stand that we cannot allow employers to be able to monitor our social media. Employees should be judged for the amount of work they are able to do, not what kind of lifestyle they choose to have. if employers screen employees by social media everyone would lose, they have to see who is the best qualified duty position and not what profile picture they have on