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The English equivalent of the Actu called the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged employers to allow staff to continue to access social networking sites at work. They say that Simply cracking down on the use of new web tools like Facebook is not a sensible solution to a problem which is only going to get bigger and whilst employers are within their rights to forbid staff from using sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo in work time, a total ban is an over-reaction.
The TUC feels that it is unreasonable for employers to try to stop staff from having a life outside work, just because they cannot get their heads around the technology and its better to invest a little time in working out sensible conduct guidelines so that there do not need to be any nasty surprises for staff or employers.