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Knowledge is power. And if you're the smart business owner, you protect yourself first and foremost by the accumulation - and wise use of - the knowledge of who are your employees.

And knowledge of what can get you sued is an important part of keeping your business. Check out someones facebook page would be a good move. Read the profile if it is marked public, also a good move. Any public information is fair game. But if the profile is marked private you can go no farther because several of the fields on the profile are on the big NO NO list of questions you can't ask. If they volunteer the info by not marking it private that's fine. But if you ask you end up facing Obama's National Labor Relations Board. A smart business owner doesn't pick that kind of fight.