Wednesday, January 12, 2005

According to The Guardian Waterstones the Bookshop have sacked one of their employees for Gross Misconduct because he writes a personal blog and has mentioned them in it in a less than perfect light from time to time. It could set a precedent for other UK bloggers who mention their day to day work online, although as Waterstones' employee contracts doesn't mention anything about writing blogs it seems to me that they have been very heavy-handed.

Waterstones haven't said much about getting rid of Joe Gordon so there might be more to his dismissal than just what he said online but if not I he would have a pretty good case to seek unfair dismissal. You would, after all, expect for them to have given him verbal or written warnings before showing him the door if they didn't want him to write about his work online.

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