01-07-2015, 03:54 PM
hppwatchdog
"It's not the messenger it's the message. Employers are held under strict confidentiality laws both State and Federal."
hppwatchdog is only half right. It most definitely is the messenger. Because of those strict State and Federal laws enjoining employers to keep personnel matters confidential, any employer who states in public what Janice Ashford stated at the July 28 meeting is up to his/her neck in excrement.
mermaid 53
"The treasurer happened to be the spokesperson at those meetings ... I don't see how that can stick legally when she was speaking for the whole board. "You're not supposed to kill the messenger."
When "the message" is not allowed by law to be made public, any person doing so is guilty of contravening the laws, whether or not s/he is speaking "for the whole Board". Period. Was a gun held to her head?
And ignorance of the law is no excuse. Just as we all agree that the original Board members should have been familiar with the Bylaws before they swore an oath and signed a contract to uphold them, as employers they should have researched the laws that would govern them. Would any right-minded person undertake such obligations without knowing the ground rules?
Based on this example, I seriously doubt Ms. Ashford's qualifications and judgment to act as Treasurer - especially now, when there are no checks and balances. Even a simple error, not caught by someone else's oversight could plunge the Association into deep trouble.
"It's not the messenger it's the message. Employers are held under strict confidentiality laws both State and Federal."
hppwatchdog is only half right. It most definitely is the messenger. Because of those strict State and Federal laws enjoining employers to keep personnel matters confidential, any employer who states in public what Janice Ashford stated at the July 28 meeting is up to his/her neck in excrement.
mermaid 53
"The treasurer happened to be the spokesperson at those meetings ... I don't see how that can stick legally when she was speaking for the whole board. "You're not supposed to kill the messenger."
When "the message" is not allowed by law to be made public, any person doing so is guilty of contravening the laws, whether or not s/he is speaking "for the whole Board". Period. Was a gun held to her head?
And ignorance of the law is no excuse. Just as we all agree that the original Board members should have been familiar with the Bylaws before they swore an oath and signed a contract to uphold them, as employers they should have researched the laws that would govern them. Would any right-minded person undertake such obligations without knowing the ground rules?
Based on this example, I seriously doubt Ms. Ashford's qualifications and judgment to act as Treasurer - especially now, when there are no checks and balances. Even a simple error, not caught by someone else's oversight could plunge the Association into deep trouble.