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When can your boss fire you for social media use? An expert on the law explains

By Laura Higson-Bliss, Lecturer in Law, Keele University

Gary Lineker isn’t so special. He might be a millionaire celebrity whose tweet criticising the government led to a crisis at the BBC and a national argument. But in being suspended from his job for something he’d posted on social media, he actually experienced something that could happen to almost anyone.

Even if your employer doesn’t have the kind of political impartiality rules the BBC has, they can still limit what you say on…

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