Blake Lapthorn writes about a UK case: Can an employer discipline or dismiss an employee who sends an offensive email from their home computer to a colleague’s home computer? An Employment Tribunal (ET), in a non-binding decision, has found that in one case the employee could have no expectation of privacy and that his dismissal…
Category: Workplace
Judge rules emails in Hamilton’s case admissible
Frank Green reports: A federal judge in Richmond has ruled that the government may use emails between former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton and his wife in his upcoming bribery and extortion trial. […] Hamilton’s lawyers said the emails are not admissible because of his Fourth Amendment right to privacy and the privilege of protecting confidential…
Labor Panel to Press Reuters Over Reaction to Twitter Post
Here we go again – just replace Facebook with Twitter? Steven Greenhouse reports: In what would be the first government case against an employer involving Twitter, the National Labor Relations Board told Thomson Reuters on Wednesday that it planned to file a civil complaint accusing the company of illegally reprimanding a reporter over a public…
ACLU Responds To Maryland Division Of Corrections’ Revision Of Invasive Social Media Policy
Today, the Maryland Department of Corrections released a letter describing a revised social media policy, in response to a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland asking DOC to rescind their blanket policy demanding personal social media passwords from corrections officers and applicants as part of the employment certification process. The ACLU’s January…