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Experts call for sports clubs to have social media policy as rugby player makes ‘Twitt’ of himself online
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Today, Glasgow Warriors winger, Rory Lamont has proved that it’s not just premiership footballers that make a ‘twit’ of themselves online, after referring to Barrack Obama as a ‘whore’.
The incident which occurred on social networking site Twitter has now sparked debate at professional and semi-professional sports clubs across the country as to how to keep a lid on their players’ online antics.
Head of employment law for ELAS, Peter Mooney commented: “Like any other employer, sports clubs need to implement a social media policy to give players guidance on what is and isn’t acceptable behaviour.
“It’s no use ‘locking the stable door after the horse has already bolted’, especially as the use of social media is on the increase. Like any other employee players and athletes need to know where the boundaries lie
Just last month Samoan rugby union player, Eliota Fuimanono Sapolu was suspended for making abusive comments on Twitter about a referee.
Mr Mooney continued: “This incident highlights the risk for all organisations, sports clubs and businesses alike, that they need to be proactive to safeguard the reputation of their club or business, to protect them from the result of inappropriate comments made on social media.
Recent research carried out by ELAS found that of 1,000 SMEs, two thirds had failed to issue staff with guidance on using social media or had a policy in place to deal with staff who acted inappropriately online.
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