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What should we do? Employee almost divulged insider-trading information on Facebook

by 07/26/2011

Q. We recently learned that one of our employees posted comments on a friend’s Facebook page, coming to our company’s defense over a recent drop in stock price. The employee came dangerously close to disclosing information about earnings that were not yet public. What can and should we do?

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