Darrell Smith reports that legislation prohibiting employers from asking job applicants’ social media logins is moving closer to becoming law in California: The Social Media Privacy Act, sponsored by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, sailed through the Senate’s Education, and Labor and Industrial Relations committees. The bill’s Assembly counterpart, authored by Silicon Valley Democrat…
Category: Workplace
Victory! Federal Judge Rules Against Drug Testing of Florida’s State Workers
Great news from Baylor Johnson of the ACLU of Florida: Two months ago, I was sitting in a federal courtroom in Miami watching as our staff attorney, Shalini Goel Agarwal, argued for the rights of Florida state workers against invasive, suspicionless mandatory bodily-fluid searches. The ACLU of Florida, on behalf of the American Federation of…
Calif. Bill Protecting Social Media Passwords Easily Clears Hurdle
Cheryl Miller reports: Legislation that would bar employers from demanding access to their workers’ social media accounts sailed out of an early committee Tuesday with support from both labor groups and business lobbies. Assembly Bill 1844 would apply to both current and prospective employees. The bill’s author, Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, did drop language…
Employer not allowed to search for porn on employee’s home computer
Evan Brown discusses an interesting case: Former employee sued her old company for subjecting her to a sexually hostile workplace and for firing her after she reported it. She claimed that she had never looked at pornography before she saw some on the computers at work. During discovery in the lawsuit, the company requested that…