Business Services Industry
Temporary Workers Want Microsoft Personnel Files.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1999 by Flash, Cynthia
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 28 -- The state Department of Labor and Industries said Wednesday it is ready to examine whether Microsoft kept secret personnel files on its temporary workers -- and whether that violates state law.
However, even if the agency determines the Redmond software company violated state law by keeping such documents, there is little the agency can do about it.
The issue was raised this week by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, which is trying to organize Microsoft and other temporary high-tech workers into a union.
Washtech claims Microsoft is illegally keeping secret personnel files on people who worked at Microsoft in temporary, or contract, positions.
The group claims...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Getting the global view: Nestle, led by Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, climbs to the #1 spot in this year's Best Companies for Leaders
