B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham invites public submissions on her investigation into the use of police information checks. Interested citizens or groups are welcome to answer the questions the Commissioner has posed in this consultation letter. In addition, or alternatively, the public can provide our Office whatever views they may have on the…
Category: Workplace
Nusring Facility Settles Alleged GINA Violations with EEOC for $370K
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: As one nursing facility in New York has learned, asking employees or applicants about their family medical history can violate the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”) and draw the ire of the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Founders Pavilion, Inc., a former Corning, N.Y. nursing and rehabilitation center, will pay $370,000…
City Employee Properly Alleged Fourth Amendment Violation for Unreasonable Search and Seizure by Ordering Drug Test Based on Personal Animosity
Roger S. Kaplan writes: Considering when a drug test by a public employer may constitute an “unreasonable” search for Fourth Amendment purposes, a U.S. District Court in Florida also has shed light on private sector substance abuse testing that could lack “reasonable suspicion” or “cause.” There was no factual record on which the court relied. Hudson v. City…
Revelations that Ikea spied on Its employees stir outrage in France
Nicola Clark of the New York Times reports on an issue that I’ve been covering on this blog since March 2012 (search for “IKEA”): … A regional court in Versailles, near Paris, is now examining whether Ikea executives in France broke the law by ordering personal investigations — not only of Ms. Paulin but of…