If the California workers' compensation community understands what SB 863 will and will not do on January 1 and in 2013, 2014, and 2015, SB 863 might be the elusive long-term reform generations of employers and workers have wanted for so many decades.
Many businesses fail to remember that, despite all of the positive aspects social media brings to a firm's marketing, communication, and sales efforts, it's also ripe with opportunity to damage their brand and cause a financial loss.
Whether the practice of asking applicants for their Facebook passwords is legal or even advisable will be debated thoroughly in the weeks to come. The current Facebook frenzy about password privacy misses entirely the reality for hiring managers and Human Resources professionals.