welcome to hump day and here are some Wednesday tidbits for your consideration:
According to TLN Blog
A woman's husband had sued AT&T for Workers Compensation over the death of his wife from a blood clot. For the record she weighed over 300 pounds and worked from a home office three out of the five days per week. THe argument was that due to the fact that she was expected to be seditary in a desk chair to complete her work, the direct result was the creation of the blood clot which got into her lungs and killed her. The Mayo Clinic has completed studies which indicate that are seditary lifestyles could be hazardous to your health. A Judge has ruled that in fact her estate is eligible to receive workers compensation payments. Yhis could be a warning to look at your work evironments and ensure that employees have the time to get up and move around through out the day.
From one of the legal blogs I receive daily
In a Facebook with a twist. We had reported earlier about the case of the Connecticut woman who was fired because of what she posted on Facebook about her employer which the company considered to be derogatory in nature. The National Labor Relations Board came back and said that what she said was covered free speech under the National Labor Relations Act. Now the issue has arose again, this time with information that was put on Twitter. IN this case however the employee was warned that the use of social media was against company policy and the employee continued to ude the media. As a result the company fired him. In this case the NLRB said that the cases were different in that the employee was warned that the actions were against company policy and therefore he was not covered under the same conditions and they upheld his dismissal.
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