A judge has granted a temporary restraining order that prohibits the state’s personnel office from releasing the birth dates of state employees. Oklahoma County District Judge Bryan Dixon approved the order on Friday. The Oklahoma Public Employees Association sought the restraining order to prevent the Office of Personnel Management from releasing the birth dates of…
Category: Workplace
Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law
Eugene Volokh writes: There’s been a lot of debate about anonymous comments. Some journalists are calling on newspapers to not allow anonymous comments, and I understand the sentiment — anonymity sometimes does encourage rudeness and worse. At the same time, modern tort law and antidiscrimination law can potentially make it very dangerous for people to comment…
Metrolink workers object to personality testing
Rich Connell reports: Unions for engineers and conductors threaten a boycott of the tests that the agency and Amtrak, which takes over operation of the regional rail system July 1, plan to require. Engineers and conductors on Southern California’s commuter rail service are threatening an en masse boycott of new personality-profiling tests required as a…
N.J. Supreme Court rules employer violated woman’s privacy by reading e-mails
The Associated Press reports: New Jersey’s Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a woman whose employer read e-mail sent on a company computer between her and her lawyer. Before she left the Loving Care Agency and filed a discrimination lawsuit, Marina Stengart exchanged e-mails with her lawyer through her personal e-mail account. Loving Care’s…