Kirsten Errick reports: On Friday, Amazon Flex Driver Drickey Jackson alleged that Amazon “wiretapp(ed) the electronic communications of Amazon Flex Drivers’ closed Facebook groups,” according to a class action complaint filed in the Souther District of California. The complaint noted that “in addition to its own drivers, Amazon contracts out to over 800 service delivery partners. These…
Category: Workplace
Teachers who refuse coronavirus tests in Austria ‘may be forced to wear FFP2 masks in classroom’
Under Austria’s coronavirus mass-testing scheme, teachers are to be tested in early January. While nobody can be forced to be tested, those who refuse may have to wear FFP2 coverings while teaching. Read about this issue on The Local (Austria). Under their constitution, they can’t require or mandate the testing, but as a union official…
Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
Lauren Kaori Gurley and Joseph Cox report: Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras. Last year, a sales director on the company’s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of colleagues in a Slack channel…
‘Love Contracts’ Go Mainstream as Employers Track Office Romance
Workplace privacy issues have taken center stage in the past year or so. Not only do we have the issues of employers protecting workplace health and safety during the pandemic without violating employees’ privacy in unacceptable ways, but the MeToo! movement that preceded the pandemic was already producing significant shifts in how employers might monitor…