Al is a bigoted manager who wants to fire an employee for an improper reason. Al

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Al is a bigoted manager who wants to fire an employee for an improper reason. Al orders Ted to examine records of the employee’s work and “find me a reason to fire that #*@!”. Ted does as told and discovers evidence the employee may have skimmed sales. Al fires the employee, who promptly sues Al (and the company) for invasion of privacy and unlawful firing.

I. Al and the company may have liability for conducting an investigation without a predicate.

II. The employee’s skimming eliminates any liability for invasion of privacy.

III. An employee has no right to privacy for acts committed at work.

IV. Investigations without predicate abuse corporate assets.

A. I only.

B. I, II, and II only.

C. I and IV only.

D. I, II, III, and IV.

Explanation / Answer

The correct answer is B that Ai and the company may have liability for conducting an investigation without predicate but the employees skimming eliminates any liability for invasion of privacy. If no fault of the employee wuld have been discovered, then the company and AI would hve been liabile for wrongfully going after the employee without a predicate. But since, now yhey have a reasonable ground that the employee was skimming sales, they do not have any liability.

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