Picture This: Key Employment Law Issues (Part 1)
Type
E-journal
Date
13 Mar 2012
Jurisdiction
Dubai International Financial Centre, United Arab Emirates
Taxonomy
Contract & Conditions of Employment, Data Protection in Employment, Rights & Duties of Employees & Employers, Termination of Employment, World Wide Web
Copyright
LexisNexis
Relevant company
Hadef & Partners
Legal reference
Article 120 of Federal Law No. 8/1980, Article 121 of Federal Law No. 8/1980, Article 905 of Federal Law No. 5/1985, Article 379 of Federal Law No. 3/1987
Analysis
In our continuing focus on employment law, Mandeep Kalsi considers some key legal developments and important issues facing employers and employees in the UAE against the backdrop of some memorable motion pictures involving the workplace
In Part 1 of this series, the spotlight is very firmly focused on the world of social media and redundancies.
Tagline: The Legal Implications of Social Media in the Workplace
Setting the Scene: The Social Network (2010) (Director: David Fincher) - A critically-acclaimed look into the origin of the social phenomena Facebook, and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook's current membership is estimated to be around 800 million (out of which approximately 2.7m were found in a survey to represent Facebook users in the UAE), and with its 2012 IPO, it is expected that this figure (and Facebook's popularity and influence) will further increase.