Littler Mendelson writes: Since March 12, there have been 2,038 lawsuits (including 159 class actions) filed against employers due to alleged labor and employment violations related to the coronavirus. States with the most filings include: California (491); New Jersey (239); Florida (167); New York (158); and Ohio (116). Industries with the most filings are: healthcare (495…
Category: Workplace
California State Healthcare Worker Accesses COVID-19 Data on More Than 2,000 Patients and Employees
While insider wrong-doing (snooping) breaches get covered on DataBreaches.net, such breaches may be a workplace privacy issue. Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: As we noted in late January 2020, the spread of infectious disease raises particular concerns for healthcare workers who want to do their jobs and care for their patients, while also protect themselves and their…
Law Firm Wins Fired Lawyer’s Suit Over Analyzing Cell Phone Data
Brian Flood reports: The law firm Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle didn’t violate the Stored Communications Act by having data extracted from a fired attorney’s smart phone, because only the phone’s internal storage was accessed and copied, a federal court in Illinois said Thursday. ZRFM paid for attorney David Loughnane’s cell phone and its associated…
NZ: Privacy commissioner’s findings in case where employer carried out belated background check
Case note 312002 [2021] NZPrivCmr 2: Employer carries out belated criminal background check on employee A caregiver applied for a role at a care home. As part of the application process, they filled out a form consenting for management to carry out a Police background check on them. Unbeknown to the caregiver, no check was…