Fired for On-the-Job Sex at Neiman’s, Ex-Workers Sue Over Videotape

Two former security employees at a Neiman Marcus department store near Chicago were fired after a video camera allegedly twice caught the "close friends" allegedly involved in "sexual activity" with each other last year in a loss prevention office.

Now they are suing the store in Cook County Circuit Court, contending that the secret videotaping violated an Illinois state law ban on eavesdropping and, apparently, that the way their firing was handled by a store manager violated their privacy rights, according to the Chicago Tribune.

"The suit alleges the manager shared the videotape with several other people and on a nationwide online database of security personnel," the newspaper notes. It also contends that the two have been unable to find new jobs since they were fired.

A Neiman Marcus Group representative declines to comment.