Friday, September 09, 2005

"Blog-posting" Case

Last September Ellen Simonetti, then an airline attendant for Delta Airlines, was suspended and later fired by the airline for posting pictures of herself on her personal blog. Delta had viewed the photographs as “inappropriate.”

Ms. Simonetti filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which decided not to sue Delta itself, but issued a “right to sue” letter, according to a USA Today article yesterday. She has now filed suit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

“The case,” the article says, “ could plow fresh ground on whether a company can take action against an employer for operating a blog.” A law.com article back in April surveyed the topic of employee blogs and disciplinary measures by employers.

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