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…
Category: Workplace
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….
Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments
Anna Leach reports: Apple was right to fire an employee of one of its UK stores for saying rude things about the company on his Facebook wall, an employment tribunal in Bury St Edmunds ruled.* The tribunal judge upheld Apple’s dismissal of the man for gross misconduct in a case which sets another precedent for…
Police cite privacy concerns over their own DNA
Dave Collins of Associated Press reports: When police in southern Louisiana were investigating the deaths of eight women in 2009, the sophistication of the crimes set off rumors that the serial killer was a police officer — speculation that became so pervasive that officials ordered DNA testing of law enforcement personnel to rule it out….