Daily Sabah reports: In an important decision that will set the precedent for similar cases, Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday to compensate an employee who was fired from the job shortly after being diagnosed with HIV. The employee from the western province of Izmir, acknowledged with the initials T.T.A, was diagnosed with HIV in 2006….
Category: Workplace
GOP bill would let employers force workers to get genetic tests and hand over the results
Jamie Peck writes: The major healthcare story of the week has been the Trump administration’s ham-fisted efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something way worse. But did you know that while everyone was focused on that, the GOP was quietly pushing a bill that would let employers force their employees to…
NZ: Privacy breach: $18k compensation for humiliation
The New Zealand Herald reports: The president of a university student union has been awarded $18,000 in compensation for humiliation caused by a colleague leaking a private letter of hers to the university’s student magazine. The union’s president lodged a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner after excerpts of a written warning given…
Des Plaines council turns to polygraphs in leak investigation
John Keilman and Brian L. Cox report: Washington-style intrigue will swirl through Des Plaines Monday when several aldermen say they’ll take polygraph tests to prove they’re not the source of a leaked document that has cast this northwest suburban town into an uproar. It’s the latest chapter of a long-running drama that has seen private…