Sales Executive fired for deleting 24 hour tracking app

A Californian sales executive is suing her former employer, after she was fired from her job for uninstalling a mobile app designed to track her location 24 hours a day.

Myrna Arias claims that she has been wrongfully terminated from her position in money transfer company Intermex after raising questions regarding job management app Xora StreetSmart being installed on all company phones.

Marketed as a worktime monitoring tool, Xora allows employers to “see the location of every mobile worker, where they have been and where they are now”. Their website is keen to reiterate that Xora is purely a workplace tool, saying: “When your field employees start their day, they simply launch the application.”