Amanda Crum reports: The Applebee’s waitress who posted a customer’s check on Reddit because of a note explaining why there was no tip has been fired, and the company has posted a lengthy explanation of the story and their decision on Facebook. The waitress, identified as Chelsea, says she thought it was funny when she…
Category: Workplace
Your employer may share your salary, and Equifax might sell that data
Bob Sullivan reports: The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled what may be the most powerful and thorough private database of Americans’ personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults. Some of the information…
The Spanish Constitutional Court backs the possibility of accessing private on-line conversations of employees
Gonzalo Gallego and Cesar Ortiz write: The Spanish Constitutional Court has ruled against two company employees who claimed an infringement of their privacy right and their right to secrecy of communications, in a recent judgement from 17 December 2012, published in the States’ Official Gazette on 22 January 2013. The Constitutional Courts’ Decision 241/2012 (the…
Teacher posts picture of students with duct-taped mouths, faces privacy violations
Faith Heaton Jolley reports on what may have been some innocent classroom hijinks that never should have been shared on Facebook: Parents were enraged after an Ohio middle school teacher posted a picture of their children on her Facebook page depicting the teenagers with duct tape across their mouths. The Akron school board is considering…