Maryland Jury Awards $1.4M to Workers Investigated by Employer

February 5, 2008

A Maryland jury has awarded nearly $1.4 million to two Pepco workers who were tracked by private investigators hired by the Washington utility.

Prince George’s County jurors found that the company was negligent in its attempt to verify that 30-year Pepco veterans Mark Cawood and Joseph Joyner were skipping out of work early.

Pepco spokeswoman Debbi Jarvis says the company disagrees with the verdict and intends to “pursue all available legal remedies.”

Both men work at the utility’s Benning Road power plant on the Anacostia River. Their attorney says they first learned that they were being tracked through their union president.

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Information from: The (Baltimore) Daily Record,

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  • February 7, 2008 at 2:41 am
    mpattill says:
    Seems like there must be an enormous amount of information missing from this article. Either that or the judge and the jury were smoking crack! Just goes to show that our jus... read more
  • February 6, 2008 at 2:47 am
    wudchuck says:
    well, i commend you on continuing to teach. my wife teaches kindergartners. the fact that the kids and their parents are on your side, means a lot. but, if all this is still h... read more
  • February 6, 2008 at 10:38 am
    cannkey says:
    It's a very short article for me to be passing judgments on what happened in this particular case; I'd have to read the case or briefs. However, just to inform some people tha... read more

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