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Yes. And all employees should know that employers do look at social media when evaluating what to do with candidates, and if they see information that they think is somehow relevant to the job, they will in fact disqualify them. The caveat would be that you can’t disqualify them for a protected reason. So, one that I think is interesting in Minnesota is, you see an employee at a party and they’re obviously drinking. In Minnesota there’s actually a law called the Lawful Consumable Products Act, which means you have the right to drink, and so you can’t disqualify an employee because they were drinking on their own time.

Minneapolis employment law attorney Sara Gullickson McGrane explains that employers can use social media to vet candidates for an employment position.

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