Question

Several states have enacted legislation protecting employees or job applicants from employers that require them to provide a username or password for their social media account(s) for conduct monitoring. Since most sites are in the public domain and can give businesses insight into candidates' or workers' behavior as do pre-employment assessments and performance reviews do. Should employers be legally and/or ethical entitled to this information? Why or why not? Explain your view. Provide any references used.

Answer 1

In my opinion, employers should not legally be entitled to the information.

Explanation:

In my opinion, employers should not legally be entitled to the information. These are my reasons for this stance.

1. An individual's social media account has nothing to do with the competence for a job. Employers only need to evaluate the skills, knowledge and experience that are needed.

2.Each person had the right to correctly Express themselves on social media so it would be unfair to disqualify or qualify candidates based on the content on their social media accounts.

3.Social media is not always the true reflection of an individual so it's not even an accurate way of measuring personal conduct.

On ethical levels, I would say that employers should not make it a requirement to surrender social media passwords to employers. Employees and potential employees should do it at their own will and this should not lead to discrimination.