The names and job descriptions of Securities and Exchange Commission employees who were caught viewing pornography at work will remain a secret, a federal district judge ruled Tuesday in Colorado. Denver attorney Kevin Evans requested the information after reading an SEC report that found that 24 SEC employees and seven employees of an SEC contractor…
Category: Workplace
NC Judge: Hospital Employees Must Get Flu Shot
Can’t say that I’m surprised by this one. Here’s the outcome of a workplace case mentioned previously on this blog: The fight over flu shots at Anderson Area Medical Center is over and an employee who filed suit to keep the hospital from firing her if she didn’t get a shot has a deadline. The judge in the…
New York City Lawyer Argues Over Release of Teacher Ratings
Chloe Smith writes: A New York City lawyer argued in court Wednesday over whether individual teachers’ ratings can be released to the public. The 12,000 New York City schoolteachers through eighth grade elementary and middle school say that the evaluation formula is highly subjective and flawed, and disclosure would violate teachers’ privacy as they fear that…
NYCLU sues over DOL’s GPS tracking of employee
Rick Karlin reports: The New York State Civil Liberties Union is suing the state Department of Labor over the organization’s placing of a GPS tracking device on one of their employee’s car without a warrant. The employee, Michael Cunningham, also was the subject of a Times Union story by my colleague James Odato. Read more in…