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Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules?
techmage writes "Recently we had an issue at our small company that resulted in the loss of a lot of important data. To prevent it from happening again, we created a company-wide policy that all computers would return to IT to have their contents backed up, and the computers would be formatted and reloaded for the next user. Consistently the owners of the company break this and other policies we set up to prevent data loss, theft, etc. How do I get through to the bosses that when they break with the policies, they are potentially shooting the company in the foot?"
So you're going to take my laptop, back it up, reload it and give it to the next guy? I in turn will get someone else's formatted laptop?
Or are you just trying to say, "we lost a lot of data when someone's laptop failed without proper backup processes in place. So we've decided that everyone needs to regularly connect to the company network and back up their laptop. The owner's of the company never back up their laptop"?
See if you can assign a value to the data already lost because of their failure to follow the rules. We did a variation of this at Xerox ASD in the 70's and locked Charles Simonyi (yes, that Charles) out of "his" own source code.
Meh, only 5% of unemployment cases get denied due to misconduct discharges. Misconduct is
Generally "misconduct" involves an act of willful disregard of the employer's interests or a deliberate violation of the employer's rules or an intentional and substantial disregard of the employee's duty to the employer.
If you subpoena the employers timekeeping records and they only show you being late 3 times in 10 years then their appeal of your benefits will get denied.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
The reasonable period is 12 months in the UK, just like the rest of the EU. It's all working time directive related. The Labour government revoked out opt out of the working time directive over a decade ago.
Also if the employer is deemed to be firing people at say 11 months to avoid this rule they will be done. I am not a lawyer but my brother is an employment tribunal judge, and you do pick up lots over the years.