Fred Clasen-Kelly reports: A legislative proposal that would grant citizens access to performance evaluations and other details about government employees in North Carolina has pitted the public’s right to know against worker privacy. At an open government conference Thursday, a city of Charlotte official blasted the proposal, saying it was “a complete invasion” of privacy….
Category: Workplace
AZ: County employees unhappy about saliva test
UPI reports: An Arizona county is trying to get reliable data on whether its employees are smokers by testing saliva, a move some workers are resisting. “They gotta do what they gotta do, but it is kind of an invasion of our privacy,” Dee Webber, a Maricopa County accounting employee and admitted smoker, told The…
Ca: Montreal city hall addresses BlackBerry privacy
Montreal officials may have a somewhat greater expectation of privacy in their employer-issued devices than their counterparts elsewhere. The Montreal Gazette reports: The city of Montreal has advised elected officials their calls and messages on city-issued BlackBerries are confidential. Only the name and work address of the BlackBerry subscriber and the cost and time period…
Md. AG: Requiring employees’ personal passwords is legal
Neal Augenstein reports: Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler says requiring a prospective state employee to turn over his social networking user names and passwords as a condition of employment could be appropriate and legal, WTOP has learned. A day after Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Corrections suspended the practice, which it used to root…