Maya T. Prabhu reports: A case that will be argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in November could set a precedent that affects the way educators and other public employees use their eMail. The court has agreed to hear a case that will determine whether the public’s right to know what its government is doing…
Category: Workplace
Personal information sharing upsets open shop association
Richard Gilbert reports: The Industry Training Authority (ITA) in B.C. shared detailed information about apprenticed employees with public and private trades training institutes, which has outraged members of the local non-union contractors association. “It is offensive to the open shop sector to give out the names, addresses, telephone numbers, the level the apprentices were at…
FOI birth date battle reaches Texas Supreme Court
A fight about whether the birth dates of about 145,000 state workers are public record reached the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday, with a newspaper and the state attorney general pushing for their release. Standing in their way is Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, who argues releasing birth dates could lead to identity theft. The case…
Court: Employer not liable for worker’s online misdeeds
The Associated Press reports that 3rd District Court of Appeals has overturned a decision awarding 10 women $1.4 million for severe emotional distress after their Polaris Industries employee pictures were copied by an employee of Securitas Security Services (the security company providing security services to their employer) and then posted to porno sites on the…