{"id":5946,"date":"2017-01-04T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2017-01-04T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:00:41","slug":"limits-using-off-duty-conduct-employment-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/limits-using-off-duty-conduct-employment-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits on Using Off-Duty Conduct in Employment Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/attorneys\/lane-v-erickson\">Lane V. Erickson, Attorney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Idaho the limits of using off-duty conduct in an employment decision are mostly controlled by either an employment agreement or the \u201cat will\u201d doctrine described above. \u00a0However, some exceptions to this may still apply. \u00a0Using social media as an example illustrates these narrow exceptions. \u00a0While none of the incidents reported below occurred in Idaho they likely will in the future. \u00a0As reported:<\/p>\n<p>May 25, 2010, Brixx Wood Fired Pizza waitress Ashley Johnson was pretty fired up about the couple that lingered three hours over lunch, made her work an hour past her quitting time \u2013 and then left her only a $5 tip. \u00a0So Johnson, 22, did the 21st century equivalent of griping to the kitchen staff (or the bartender down the street): She vented on Facebook. \u201cThanks for eating at Brixx,\u201d she wrote, \u201cyou cheap piece of &#8212;- camper.\u201d (For the record, the $5 tip was 17 percent of the customers\u2019 bill.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/limits-using-off-duty-conduct-employment-decision\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Limits on Using Off-Duty Conduct in Employment Decision\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney In Idaho the limits of using off-duty conduct in an employment decision are mostly controlled by either an employment agreement or the \u201cat will\u201d doctrine described above. \u00a0However, some exceptions to this may still apply. \u00a0Using social media as an example illustrates these narrow exceptions. \u00a0While none of the incidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Limits on Using Off-Duty Conduct in Employment Decision|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Lane V. 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