Microsoft fires worker over weblog: “Michael Hanscom began keeping an online journal, commonly known as a weblog, several years ago. He started his job as a contract worker in Microsoft’s print shop last year. Last week, he mixed the two. This week, he’s looking for a new job, after becoming an unwilling case study in [...]
Termination and unfair dismissal is a pdf from DoCEP which deals with unfair dismissal cases in Australia. What is important is the Federal governments Workchoices legislation excludes many businesses from regulation under this Act; however Unlawful dismissal is covered across the whole of Australia. Unlawful dismissal is what I will be the focus of my [...]
Blogging rights (link requires subscription)
The authors point out that private blogs are those that are updated outside of work hours on the employee’s own computer; to update a private blog on a work computer would automatically create a case for the wrongful use of company equipment. Between 2003 and 2004 the readership of blogs increased 58% to 32 million [...]
Young people are running into trouble with their blogging activities as a result of the way they live their lives: It’s not unusual, this article suggests, for young people to post photos of their graduation alongside party photos; and this, the article suggests, is because young people have a new way of viewing what is [...]
The first hand account of Ellen Simonetti who was fired for posting “inappropriate” photos on her blog. Simonetti claims to have filed a sex discrimination claim with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Delta Airlines, and despite her best attempts, being unable to find a specific Delta Airlines policy in relation to posting photos [...]
CEO of Employment Law Alliance, Steve Hirschfield claims that a poll of 1000 adults, conducted in January 2006, finds that 5% of US workers maintain a blog, whilst only 15% of their employers have a policy directly dealing with blogging practice. The article concludes that there may be as many as 10 million bloggers in [...]