Peter Hirschfeld reports: Senate lawmakers have voted to halt the Douglas administration’s plans to monitor the web-viewing habits of thousands of state employees. In a unanimous voice vote this week, the Senate approved an amendment, attached to the budget bill, that would forbid human resources managers from tracking the Internet activity of Vermont employees working…
Category: Workplace
TransUnion battling attempts to ban employment credit checks
Julie Wernau reports: TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory. […] TransUnion has publicly defended credit checks as a way for employers…
Bend call center lawsuit raises privacy questions
Cindy Powers of the Associated Press reports: Two women have filed a $250,000 wrongful termination suit against a major Bend employer that raises questions about workplace privacy, confidentiality and how employers handle investigations into potential misconduct. Pamela Castaneda and Pamela McCauley maintain TRG Customer Solutions fired them in June 2008 for “disclosing confidential personnel information”…
Are employees wising up about Facebook?
John Leyden reports: Three in four Facebook users avoid making friends with their boss through the site for fear that an off-hand remark might jeopardise their employment prospects. An online survey of 450 surfers, commissioned by net security firm F-Secure, found that 73 per cent were not “friends” with their boss. A similar 77 per…