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…
Category: Workplace
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…
OK state worker group seeks to block release of records
Paul Mones reports: A state employee group has asked an Oklahoma County judge to block the release of the birth dates of state employees after an Open Records Act request by The Oklahoman. The c filed the motion for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction Monday against the state’s Office of Personnel Management. A…