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…
Category: Workplace
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…
McDonald’s manager: “I am, very, like remorseful” for taking nude workmate’s pic
No, this is not the case out of Arkansas involving McDonald’s and a cell phone, but another case, this out in Australia. ANI reports: Amanda Jane Murison, 21, of Runcorn in Brisbane’s south, was at a fast-food conference at a Hamilton Island resort in August last year, and she was sharing a room with a…
Feds ask appeals court to stay drug decision
USA Today has a story by Ronald Blum of the Associated Press reporting that federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to stay its decision [pdf] that government agents illegally seized the drug testing records and samples of more than 100 major league baseball players (see this post for previous coverage of the decision and…