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Courts Raise Standard on Reading of Employee Mails

Posted by admin On November 27, 2009

The Wall Street journal recently reported that  employees sometimes have more privacy rights than they might expect when it comes to the corporate email server. Legal experts say that courts in some instances are showing more consideration for employees who feel their employer has violated their privacy electronically.

Full Story Here:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125859862658454923.html?mod=rss_Today’s_Most_Popular

Hospital Rabbi Fired for Blogging

Posted by admin On November 26, 2009

A few weeks after comforting the family of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum security guard Stephen T. Johns as he lay dying at George Washington University Hospital, Rabbi Tamara Miller — the hospital’s head of spiritual care — wrote about the experience. The essay was published in June on washingtonpost.com’s On Faith blog. Five weeks later, the hospital fired her.

Full Story here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503965.html

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