Arif Bulkan reports on the use of polygraph testing in Guyana: In the midst of all the gripping revelations coming out of a Brooklyn courtroom alleging corruption at the highest levels of the government of Guyana, another drama involving corruption has been unfolding locally. However, this one involves a few far down on the totem…
Category: Workplace
Accused killers won’t get names of nurses at jail, for now
Levi Pulkkinen of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a follow-up to an earlier news story about a nurse’s union seeking an emergency injunction to bar the release of prison nurses’ names to two inmates who had filed for the information under freedom of information law: Following a brief hearing, King County Superior Court Judge Michael Fox…
Feds improperly seized results of MLB drug tests
Federal officials improperly seized a list of 104 Major League Baseball players who tested positive for steroids in 2003, the 9th Circuit ruled. Agents had a search warrant for drug-test results for 10 players, but found a list of 104 players who had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. Officials used the longer list…
Nurseries protest over ‘intrusive’ early years qualifications database
Nurseries and early years organisations have questioned the role of a new nationwide electronic database – which will share nursery staff details and qualifications with local authorities – after one local authority threatened to pull nursery education grant funding if the information was not provided. There is no legal requirement for early years settings to…