David Meyer reported: When Mohamed Maslouh, a London-based contractor, was assigned to enter data into Google’s internal gHire recruitment system last September, he noticed something surprising. The database contained the profiles of thousands of people in the EU and U.K. whose names, phone numbers, personal email addresses and résumés dated back as far as 2011….
Category: Workplace
Virginia Passes Legislation Prohibiting the Use of Employees’ Social Security Numbers as Identifiers
Jason C. Gavejian and Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis write: On March 21, 2023, Virginia’s governor approved Senate Bill 1040, which prohibits an employer from using an employee’s social security number or any derivative as an employee’s identification number. The bill also prohibits including an employee’s social security number or any number derived from the social…
NY court workers fired for refusing COVID vax must be rehired with back pay as state board scraps mandate
Larry Celona, Bernadette Hogan, and Bruce Golding report: New York court workers must be rehired — and given back pay with interest — if they were fired because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, the state’s Public Employment Relations Board has ruled. Under terms of the decision issued last month, the Unified Court System must immediately “cease and…
Ford’s Request of Employee Family Medical Histories Violates Illinois Law, Class Action Alleges
A class action alleges Ford Motor Company unlawfully asks applicants and employees to provide their family medical histories and then uses this information to make employment decisions. Kelly Mehorter reports: The 16-page case more specifically claims Ford has run afoul of the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), a state law designed to protect residents…