Discussion

• Employees’ rights to privacy are being brought to question on many fronts—just what is your right to privacy at your place of employment? Does your employer have a right to read your personal e-mail? To place surveillance cameras in the restroom? To track the sites that you visit? Monitor your phone calls?
  • Evaluate the employer’s interest in monitoring employees, including the rights that employers have.
  • Assess the rights to privacy and protection from monitoring that employees should have.
  • Justify a brief communication plan for policies and procedures pertaining to monitoring.

   

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