Dionne Searcey has a piece in the Wall Street Journal describing some court cases on whether employers can read employee email. While it is safest to assume that you will have no privacy and that your boss can access anything you do on their computers, the courts have not always ruled that way, especially if…
Category: Workplace
$6M verdict upheld in McDonald’s strip search case
Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press reports: A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald’s restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. The appellate court on Friday ruled that Illinois-based McDonald’s Corp., knew about a series of…
Zw: Hands off civil servants’ data, PSC tells WB
Sydney Kawadza reports: The Public Service Commission has blocked an attempt by the World Bank to access the personal data of State employees, which it claims it needs for an audit of the civil service. Senior Government officials on Monday said the World Bank’s request was in contravention of certain laws and they suspected the…
OH: Judge blocks GOP request for data
Catherine Candisky reports: A Franklin County judge yesterday temporarily blocked releasing to the Ohio Republican Party the names, addresses and phone numbers of and other information about Ohio teachers, school administrators and staff members. Common Pleas Judge Laurel A. Beatty granted the temporary restraining order at the request of the Ohio Education Association, the state’s…