An adjudicator with Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner found an Alberta employer did not comply with the notification requirements of provincial privacy legislation when it informed certain employees and others that an employee who was suspended for a positive drug test wouldn’t be around. An Alberta employee of Lafarge Canada, a supplier…
Category: Workplace
Team owner asks staff to go through lockers to prevent future violations
Chris Owens of The Associated Press reports on how no expectation of privacy in the workplace is playing out in a professional sports team: Houston Texans owner Bob McNair ordered the team’s staff to go through the locker room to make sure no players are using banned substances. USA Today first reported the Texans had…
Drug Testing Poses Quandary for Employers
Katie Zezima and Abby Goodnough report: The news, delivered in a phone call, left Sue Bates aghast: she was losing her job of 22 years after testing positive for a legally prescribed drug. Her employer, Dura Automotive Systems, had changed the policy at its sprawling plant here to test for certain prescription drugs as well…
Computer security head suspended over e-mail spying
Randy Ludlow reports: The head of computer systems security for the Ohio Department of Public Safety was suspended today amid the fallout from an e-mail spying scheme. David A. Brown, 46, was placed on paid administrative leave from his $94,284-a-year job as the department continues to review employees’ roles in a plan to illegally intercept…