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It's 11 AM. Do You Know Where Your Employees Are?: Effective Use Of Location-Based Technologies In The Workplace ( March 2005 )
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Event Data Recorders (EDR) are all on the verge of becoming part of daily life -- outside the workplace. Wal-Mart, and other major corporations, including Proctor & Gamble, IBM, and United Parcel Service, are working towards the eventual replacement of the omnipresent barcode by RFID, a computer chip that transmits a unique radio signal identifier. -
Employers Do Not Violate the ECPA by Accessing Employee E-mails on Company-Provided File Servers ( March 2004 )
On December 10, 2003, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled against an employee who sued his employer for accessing his emails without his permission, alleging a violation of his privacy rights under the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act. This decision illustrates the importance of a well-drafted electronic monitoring policy. -
Employees' Right To Privacy In Washington ( September 2003 )
Employers often have a need to inquire into their employees' personal lives for such purposes as determining fitness for a particular position, ensuring productivity and preventing illegal activity in the workplace. This article discusses these issues and provides a broad outline for employers to refer to when dealing with employee privacy. -
Employment Law: Employers must enforce drug-testing policies in a way that minimizes exposure to tort claims ( December 2001 )
For many employers, drug-testing policies have proved indispensable as a safeguard against hiring and retaining employees with potentially dangerous drug or alcohol problems. In states like California, however, such practices remain a thorny issue, as employers must carefully enforce any drug-testing policy in a way that does not increase their exposure to employment-related tort claims, especially for invasion of privacy. -
Employee Privacy in Minnesota: Avoiding Liability Exposure in Medical Workplaces ( May 2000 )
Medical employers, like other employers, need to be aware that too much monitoring of employees can cause unnecessary stress in the workplace. -
Employees' Rights to Privacy ( February 2000 )
Increasingly, employers are discovering that they need to know facts about their employees which may not be immediately apparent in the workplace - facts about their employees or prospective employees' credit and prior histories, facts about their employees' conduct in the workplace during "personal" or "break" time, facts about their employees' use of e-mail or Internet, facts about their employees' off-duty conduct, and facts about their employees' medical conditions. -
Employee Privacy in the Public Sector ( February 1998 )
This monograph gives the reader an overview of the principal legal challenges with respect to workplace privacy facing today's governmental employer (with primary focus on the municipal employer in Texas) and offers some practical suggestions for meeting those challenges. -
Labor & Employment: April 1999 ( April 1999 )
This update reviews the question of whether an employee has a reasonable expectation of privacy in email, voice mail and the internet.
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