On November 3, 2011, the Labor Chamber of the French Court of Cassation (the “Court”) upheld a decision against a company that unlawfully used a geolocation device to track the company car of one of its salesmen. Although the company notified the salesman that a geolocation device would be used to optimize productivity by analyzing…
Category: Workplace
The Worst Way To Lose A Job
Kashmir Hill writes: Back in 2009, a woman, who we will call Jane Doe, was dating a Maryland college student named Christopher Scott, who we will call a gigantic jerk. Scott “manipulated [Doe] into making a video while they were having sex,” according to a police document via Smoking Gun. He shot it using the camera…
Thumbs down on stripper fingerprint plan
Tom Godfrey reports: A plan to fingerprint 1,000 exotic dancers in Niagara Region has outraged strippers who claim the precedent-setting scheme is insulting and discriminatory. The Adult Association of Canada predicted the plan, if approved by Niagara Regional Council, will be adopted in the Toronto area and other parts of the province. A proposed bylaw would…
USPS Need Not Disclose Psych Tests to Union
Julia Filip reports: The U.S. Postal Service was justified in refusing to let its workers’ union access the confidential test scores of 22 employees without written consent, the 1st Circuit ruled. Though the National Labor Relations Board had found that the union’s collective bargaining interests outweighed employees’ privacy interests, the Boston-based federal appeals court disagreed….