From the Daily Telegraph – June 21st 2013:
Civil servants disciplined for abuse of Facebook
A civil servant has been banned from promotion for a year for misusing social media.
The employee was one of seven staff disciplined by the Welsh government for writing “inappropriate comments” on Facebook or Twitter over the past five years, it has been disclosed.
The civil servant received a written warning and was prevented from career progression for 12 months after posting remarks deemed to breach the Civil Service code on Facebook.
Steven George-Hilley of the Parliament Street think tank, which obtained the figures through a freedom of information request, said: “Banning staff from promotion due to Facebook gaffes exposes a ham-fisted approach to social media.”
