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  • 04-10-2015, 01:12 AM
    revitup360
    Supervisor Shared My Personal Information With Co-Workers
    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Texas.

    At my job I was an Assistant Store Manager. The store manager in training was coming back from a company food meeting and had a couple of his employees in his car. He drove by the street of my house and told everyone in the car that he is not saying anyone should egg or teepee my house but that I lived down this street and my car was always parked in the back of my house in case someone was interested. I have invited him over to my house in the past but he had recently started trying to get me to quit. He had told every employee to be extremely brutal when telling me what they thought of me and after he had thought I quit; he started flaunting that he knew I would quit.

    Is there anything I can actually do about this? I talked to my boss about it but he said there wasn't much he could do legally but he would look into it. The employee is not getting fired but I am wondering if there is anything I can do on my end. I do not appreciate my personal information being exposed to other employees. I was not in the car when this happened, one of the employees in the car told me about it a day later. If need be, I could more than likely get each of them to admit that the Store Manager did say these things. If you need anymore information from me just let me know. This has been an extremely stressful situation for me.
  • 04-10-2015, 03:17 AM
    Taxing Matters
    Re: Disclosure of Personal Information
    Neither federal law nor the Texas Labor Code prohibits an employer from disclosing the home address of its employees. Nor is it illegal to try to pressure an employee to quit, though of course how the employer does it matters.
  • 04-10-2015, 07:26 AM
    Tang Zulu
    Re: Disclosure of Personal Information
    If you are part of any type of minority, female, black, etc, you can explore the discrimination angle.
    The matter in which your superior behaves toward you could be also be considered harassment.
    What led the store manager to turn on you that way?
    Do you work for a large or small company? If large, have you tried HR? Most HR departments, if they are in any way professional, would certainly condemn a supervisor giving your personal information to other employees in order for them to ridicule or harass you.
  • 04-10-2015, 07:50 AM
    cbg
    Re: Disclosure of Personal Information
    If you are part of any type of minority, female, black, etc, you can explore the discrimination angle.

    Everyone is a member of at least three protected categories. We all have a gender; we all have a race; we all have a national origin. It takes far more than simply being a member of a so-called protected group to make a successful case for discrimination.

    The matter in which your superior behaves toward you could be also be considered harassment.

    Nothing the poster has provided suggests any illegal harassment.

    What led the store manager to turn on you that way?

    Irrelevant, without some actual evidence that it was for a reason prohibited by law. Which there is not.

    have you tried HR?

    The one point you make which has some vague relevance. It can't hurt to put HR on notice. However, since the poster has provided nothing to suggest that any law has been violated, HR is not obligated to take any action, although they may.

    And before you get into the same "what can it hurt" arguments you've used before, just be aware that this is what I do for a living, and have for some 30+ years now. The respective state and Federal agencies that deal with discrimination are excessively overworked and underfunded. The more people who don't really have an claim of any kind but file one "just in case, because what can it hurt", the more resources are diverted away from those people who really do have discrimination or harassment claims.
  • 04-10-2015, 03:47 PM
    comment/ator
    Re: Disclosure of Personal Information
    In order to have an EEOC complaint, be he black white male female, etc. would be that he had to show that he was being harassed BECAUSE he was a member of this particular group. In other words, if there are other males, blacks, whites, females, etc., who are not being treated poorly, then its going to be tough to say he was being picked on solely for this reason.

    What your employer did was stupid and unprofessional. He's made it double certain he doesn't like you, hasn't he? This is maybe wrong, unfair, but definitely not illegal. You've done the only thing you could reasonably do about it, which was to complain to your boss. As you said, you don't know if they did anything to him. You don't have the right to know. You've complained, now you see if this has solved the problem. If it hasn't you have two alternatives. You can find another job, or put up with it. If you quit the job for the reasons discussed above, you will not have much of a chance to be approved for unemployment insurance, but I suppose quitting would also be an alternative. Most people really believe they have a lot more rights and legal protections on the job than they do. Check the definition of "at will" employment. Texas is especially employer friendly in most regards.
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