A county agency’s workers cannot be held liable for a colleague’s murder of her husband, an appeals court ruled, despite their knowledge that she was abusing drugs, having an affair, and had stolen poison from work and used it to commit the crime.
The European Union has brought increasing economic prosperity to its members, but it has also created a single market that car thieves exploit shrewdly. Here is the data from Eurostat, Europol, Interpol, and the FBI.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has required one brokerage house to pay $12.5 million for lying about the destruction of millions of e-mails relating to an arbitration hearing.
A housing complex isn’t liable for the shooting of one resident by another, ruled a Tennessee appeals court, because the complex conducted a background check of the assailant before he moved in.
A Wal-Mart greeter will not receive workers’ compensation after tackling and handcuffing an alleged shoplifter, according to an appeals court, because both actions violated store policy.
Security weaknesses at U.S. ports of entry remain, two GAO reports warn, especially at land ports, where border officials often fail to follow proper inspection procedures. (Report on border security here.) (Report on sea ports here.)
DHS has made it much cheaper for states to implement REAL ID in its final rules (Part 1 and Part 2). But the question remains: Is it enough to quell the rising state revolt against the cost of secure IDs?
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds measured progress and lingering challenges in implementation of 2006's SAFE Port Act, which sets schedules and guidelines for import container screening, port facility security plans, and institution of the long-delayed Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC).
Slavery is becoming more common in the West as well as in developing countries, according to the Department of State’s annual report on human trafficking. In 2007, a California company settled a slavery case with the US government and Gap Inc. announced an investigation into subcontractor use of forced child labor.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced an increase in racial discrimination lawsuits filed with the agency. Racial discrimination cases overall have risen from 3,075 in 1991 to more than 7,000 in 2007.
A bill (H.R. 4015) introduced by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) would prohibit employers from discriminating against employees who are victims of stalking.
A bill (H.R. 3967) introduced by Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) would allow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to refuse admission of food into the United States under certain circumstances. (Currently, the Food and Drug Administration oversees the inspection of imported food.)
A law (P.L. 339) recently enacted in Maine would allow temporary employment agencies to obtain a waiver allowing them to forego drug testing on an employee as long as the client company has a drug testing policy that includes the temporary worker.
The plaintiff suing his employer for sexual discrimination based on sexual orientation has been ordered to preserve photographs he took on his cell phone for use as evidence during the trial. The defendant claims that the photos prove that the plaintiff took part in the banter he later characterized as discrimination.
Threats to Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system as well as a handful of Web-related dangers are listed in McAfee Avert Labs’ Top 10 Security Threats for 2008.
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