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TRENTON — The days of employers forcing workers to grant them access to their Facebook accounts may be numbered. The state Senate today passed a bill (A2878) that would fine companies $1,000 if they request or demand access to workers’ or potential employees’ accounts on social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.…
A North Carolina law requiring employers to verify their workers legal status is beginning to roll out, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. The free online system is operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and is in addition to the I-9 form each employee must complete when hired. Federal contractors have been required to use…
An Arby’s Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio, has fired its assistant general manager after she had to jump through the store’s drive-through window to escape a knife-wielding robber. What’s Arby’s beef? Archer, the company says, violated a company rule. According to the Dayton Daily News, assistant manager Mary Archer had been closing up the store when…
Trying to save a dime is costing one former Wells Fargo employee a lot. Robert Eggers, of Des Moines, Iowa, was fired from his job as a customer service representative at Wells Fargo after the bank discovered he was convicted of a minor crime for trying to put a cardboard dime in a laundromat washing…
JACKSON, Miss.   – An organization suspended from bringing foreign exchange students to the U.S. was hounded in recent years by allegations of mismanagement, with complaints ranging from sexual abuse by host fathers to urging a host family to lie about company mistakes, an Associated Press review shows. San Diego-based Pacific Intercultural Exchange, or PIE, is…
About four months after being defrocked by the Diocese of Camden in 2002, Thomas Harkins had a new job as a security officer, including patting down passengers, with the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport. The TSA hired the former priest before completing a background check, the agency recently confirmed. According to a church…
An attorney representing five Simi Valley sex offenders who sued the city over limits to their Halloween activities said the lawsuit will be the first of several she expects to file over such restrictions. Lawyer Janice Bellucci heads the 18-month-old advocacy group California Reform Sex Offender Laws. On Friday, she filed a lawsuit in federal court…
On September 27, 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1844, which prohibits employers from requiring or requesting an employee or applicant for employment to: (1) disclose a username or password for personal social media, (2) access their accounts in the presence of employers, or (3) divulge any personal social media. It…
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