Brad Segall reports: The Central Bucks School District has suspended a high school English teacher after parents complained to administrators about her blog in which she railed on her students for more than a year. School district spokeswoman Carol Counihan says CB East teacher Natalie Munroe admitted to writing the blog, which has since been…
Category: Workplace
Worker fired over Facebook comment settles lawsuit
Aemon Malone reports: Dawnmarie Souza, a former employee of the American Medical Response of Connecticut, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) agreed to settle a lawsuit over Souza’s firing, which occurred after Souza used Facebook to criticize her boss. The NLRB took up the lawsuit last year, arguing that Souza’s Facebook comments were protected…
AU: Employers to be banned from monitoring staff’s email, Facebook and internet use
Renee Viellaris reports: Sneaky bosses who spy on personal emails are facing D-Day as state and federal politicians move to protect workers’ privacy. Queensland Attorney-General Cameron Dick said it was time to safeguard workers who unknowingly had their emails read and internet use monitored by unreasonable bosses. Companies are also monitoring social network sites and…
CA: Waller wins privacy suit
Brionna Friedrich reports: Former chief building official Ray Waller has won his lawsuit against Calaveras County for its violation of his privacy rights. After Waller was dismissed in 2007, the county released 1,200 documents from his personnel file in response to public records requests for the information by the Stockton Record and the Calaveras Enterprise….