Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work., has an OpEd in Washington Examiner that is somewhat disturbing, because even allowing for bias, if two courts really ruled that unions can get away with posting workers’ Social Security numbers online or disseminating SSN, that’s just plain unhelpful on so many levels. Mark writes, in…
Category: Workplace
Boss Allegedly Downloaded Nude Photos From Employee’s Cell Phone, Showed Them Around The Office
Kashmir Hill writes: This case could be filed under “Horrible Bosses” or “Stupid Employees.” Jonathan Bruns of Texas had a temp job working for Houston-based Deepwater Corrosion Services, a company which, as you might guess from the name and location, is involved in the offshore oil industry. Via Courthouse News Service: Bruns claims a staffing agency…
Gazette sues city for records of employee discipline for Internet abuse
Do city employees have any expectation of privacy if using work computers to surf porn sites? And can the city shield the names of those employees from freedom of information requests? Those questions are being addressed in a Billings, Montana court. Ed Kemmick reports: The Billings Gazette filed a lawsuit against the city of Billings…
Internet privacy group takes on former delegate’s case
Frank Green reports: Former state Del. Phillip A. Hamilton has an ally in his appeal of bribery and extortion convictions that were in part the result of emails sent to his wife on his employer’s computer. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a brief arguing that U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson erred last…