A former IBM employee has sued the company after he was fired for inappropriate use of the Internet during work hours. (It wasn’t for reading blogs, not that you would do that during the workday.) James Pacenza admitted that he…
Before you all erupt in either glee or rage (depending on your position), please be aware there are two conditions for applying this rule: (1) you must be in Malaysia, and (2) the insulting must be done behind your supervisor’s…
An update to last week’s story on the employee who sued after being spanked during "camaraderie-bulding exercises" at a Fresno company — the jury awarded her $500,000 in actual damages and another $1.2 million in punitives. The plaintiff, Janet Orlando,…
In case you were unclear about this, it is not okay to spank employees at work, even as part of a "motivational" program under which underperforming employees are publicly humiliated. Also not approved: pie-throwing, shouting of lewd comments, and forcing…
Jim Whitehouse is suing his former employer, RBC Dominion Securities, for wrongful dismissal. He was fired in early 2004 but the parties dispute the reason for the firing. Whitehouse testified that he felt it was due to friction over his…
A “source of embarrassment” during parent-teacher conferences, allegedly.
An Iowa judge ruled this week that a former security guard could not be denied unemployment benefits after being fired on the grounds that he saw ghosts. Wade Gallegos was working for a security company in September when he called…
In April, the St. Petersburg Times reported on sexual-harassment charges made by several female attorneys at Holland & Knight’s Tampa office against Douglas Wright, a partner in the firm. The women complained of behavior that Wright called "joking and teasing,"…
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