Jeffrey S. Solochek reports: Angelica Cruik-shank was on the defensive. The suspended Land O’Lakes High School Spanish teacher sat alone at a table Wednesday, facing tough questions from a school district lawyer about actions six months earlier that had put Cruikshank’s job on the line. For nearly seven hours, witnesses — even her own witnesses…
Category: Workplace
Vast F.D.A. Effort Tracked E-Mails of Its Scientists
Let’s start the work week with a news story on workplace surveillance. Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane report: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to…
“If you don’t have the law, argue the facts…”
Daniel J. Guttman writes: With the law of privacy in social media communications evolving, the one constant take-away from court cases looking at social media use and monitoring in the workplace is a reliance on fact-dependent judicial decision making. Even through there is not yet a clear legal standard upon which to judge an employer’s…
Forgetting to log off gives “tacit authorization” for snooping – NJ court
Timothy B. Lee writes: When Wayne Rogers, a New Jersey teacher, sat down in his school’s computer lab to check his e-mail, he bumped the mouse of the computer next to him. The screen on the adjacent computer came on, and Rogers saw that one of his colleagues, Linda Marcus, had left herself logged into…