An employer adopted a policy to hire only nonsmokers. After a new hire tested positive for nicotine, he was fired. He then sued the employer, claiming wrongful discharge and invasion of privacy. What happened. In an effort to curb medical costs and promote a healthy lifestyle, the Scotts Company in Massachusetts adopted a policy prohibiting…
Category: Workplace
Deutsche Bank spied on employees
Germany’s biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired detectives to spy on its employees including a member of its supervisory board, managers and a shareholder, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. The bank launched an internal inquiry at the end of May into potential breaches of data privacy law in connection with the affair, Spiegel said in its…
DSS takes employee monitoring to new level
DSS Co Ltd, a Japanese firm that edits and processes digital maps based on survey data, started a service of recording the actions of factory workers for long hours and visualize them. The tools used for collecting the data are (1) the “ankle sensor” to be attached to the leg of a worker for recording…
Judge orders release of public pension data
California’s leading taxpayers’ rights group says the public scored a major legal victory this week when a judge ruled that a county’s pension records are not entirely confidential. The judge ruled that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, a public pension watchdog group, are entitled to a list of names…