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…
Category: Workplace
Lawsuit demands Vatican name priests accused of sex abuse
Alan Duke reports: An Illinois man is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in Wisconsin. The lawsuit demands the Vatican release the names of thousands of Catholic priests that the suit says have “credible allegations of sexual misconduct” against them. […]…
Polytechnic of Namibia employees cry foul
Toivo Ndjebela reports: The Polytechnic of Namibia is locked in a bitter labour dispute with its employees and labour authorities, emanating from allegations that the institution’s labour practices are miles beyond the provisions of the 2007 Labour Act. […] Josephine Shuuveni, a senior labour inspector at the ministry, discovered a while ago that her recent…
Oral arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon today (updated)
Although Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reports that it sounds like the Supreme Court justices will find for the employer in this important workplace text-message privacy case, Orin Kerr had a somewhat different take on how oral argument went: […] Justice Breyer focused on the reasonableness of the search (Step 2 of the O’Connor…