: Labour and employment — Grievances — Referral to adjudication — Whether the First Decision conclusively determined the grievance was not properly before the Board — Collective agreement grievance procedure and requirement to present the grievance at each level — Parties may skip levels only on mutual consent — Board treated failure to judicially review or seek reconsideration as determinative — Application dismissed Procedure — Time limits — Extension of time — Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Regulations, para. 61(b) — Whether the Board reasonably refused an extension of time in the interest of fairness — Clear, cogent and compelling reasons for delay required — Deadlines brief and precise and bargained for under the collective agreement — Extension refused and application dismissed Procedure — Time limits — Computation of time — Whether the 10-business-day period to transmit the grievance began only after the judicial review deadline expired — Board rejected the proposed start date for running of the[...]
: Speaking of Spokeo: Part 2 — The company’s allegedly bogus endorsements wfg-adm109 June 13, 2012 | 12:25PM Speaking of Spokeo: Part 2 — The company’s allegedly bogus endorsements By Lesley Fair The lawsuit against data broker Spokeo is the FTC’s first Fair Credit Reporting Act case addressing the collection of online info — including data from social networking sites — when used in the context of employment screening. But that’s not the only way the Spokeo settlement touches on social media. The FTC also charged that Spokeo violated Section 5 by having employees post glowing recommendations of the company’s services on news and technology websites without disclosing their true identity. Perhaps just the work of a rogue cubicle occupant? No, said the FTC. According to the complaint , Spokeo directed its employees to write the comments. Spokeo managers then edited what they wrote and had the staffers post the endorsements using account names provided by Spokeo. The purpose, says the FTC, was to give read[...]