A California woman is suing her former employer for invasion of privacy, labor infractions, and wrongful termination after she was fired. Here’s the shocking part. She was fired because she installed a GPS-enabled app called Xora that tracked her every move. As in 24/7 around the clock even when she was not working.
Wow.
Here’s a snippet from ARS Technica who broke the story:
Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to her suit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:
After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app’s GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner’s ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion…..
Intermex did not immediately respond for comment.
She’s looking to get something north of $500K from her ex-employer.
My take? If this isn’t the ultimate in invading someone’s privacy, I don’t know what is. I really hope that Intermex comes out on the wrong end of this lawsuit and/or the bad press that this is generating hurts them financially. There’s no way that this can be considered to be acceptable behavior by an employer.
You can bet that I’ll be watching this for further developments.
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Woman Gets Fired Because She Deleted App From Her Workplace That Tracked Her 24/7
A California woman is suing her former employer for invasion of privacy, labor infractions, and wrongful termination after she was fired. Here’s the shocking part. She was fired because she installed a GPS-enabled app called Xora that tracked her every move. As in 24/7 around the clock even when she was not working.
Wow.
Here’s a snippet from ARS Technica who broke the story:
Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to her suit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:
Intermex did not immediately respond for comment.
She’s looking to get something north of $500K from her ex-employer.
My take? If this isn’t the ultimate in invading someone’s privacy, I don’t know what is. I really hope that Intermex comes out on the wrong end of this lawsuit and/or the bad press that this is generating hurts them financially. There’s no way that this can be considered to be acceptable behavior by an employer.
You can bet that I’ll be watching this for further developments.
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