By storing information on employee absence, it allows for trends in employee absence to be highlighted and took to the next stage. The data can be used as evidence and support for investigating or disciplinary procedures, equally it can assist HR in promptly the employee to share underlying issues that they should be concerned about. Types of data and how this supports HR There are an endless amount of types of data that an organisation collects. An example is employee training records. By storing
Words: 818 - Pages: 4
Online Privacy Since the September 11th terrorist attacks the United Sates and the world at large has officially entered into an age of counter-terrorism. While the more obvious aspects of this effort against violent extremism, which violate human and constitutional rights, such as drone strikes, waterboarding, and black prison sites, are specifically targeted toward a specific population, it is the subtler aspects of mass surveillance and corporate and governmental intrusion of privacy which present
Words: 2685 - Pages: 11
1 Introduction User's privacy has been an issue of great interest for most people. There is a growing concern over how a user's information can be accessed and used without the user's knowledge nor his consent. On networks this has given rise to privacy control settings on social media to proxy servers to onion routing systems like Tor to ensure that the user has the ability to maintain his privacy online. This concern also extends towards the execution of processes on a user's machine. There is
Words: 1116 - Pages: 5
Workplace Privacy: Privacy Rights in the Workplace Marisol Cortez National University Legal Aspects of Business I Law 304 Jack B. Hamlin, M.S., J.D. October 23, 2011 Abstract Workplace Privacy: Is an employer issued search of employer issued property to their employees a violation of the employees’ Fourth Amendment right of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure? This paper will examine the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to the case of City of Ontario v. Jeff Quon that has
Words: 1639 - Pages: 7
notice period the employee will be required to work before the employment ceases and the termination payment that will be paid to the employee. * Exit Interview Policy: this policy stipulates that all employees will be offered or given the option to participate in an exit interview and outlines that all information collected will comply with the federal privacy legislation (11 privacy principles). * Confidentiality and Privacy Policy: covers the use of information of an employee, how information
Words: 1240 - Pages: 5
Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. A typical workspace has a desk, a computer, file drawers, telephones, and maybe a plant for decoration. And if you are lucky, you may have a window and a door. Because companies are trying to conserve space and stay within budget, most offices include more than one person in a room with dividers or columns separating each person. There is no privacy because everyone can hear your conversation and now what you are
Words: 1210 - Pages: 5
wrong? You have just been a victim of employee surveillance. As long as the software and video equipment has been around, employers have monitored their employees. Employee surveillance is not illegal, but there is a thin line between wrong and right that deserves more analysis: An analysis of employee surveillance in the workplace reveals an ethical issue of spying on employees or protecting employees and the company. When most people think of the word privacy, they are thinking about their personal
Words: 2028 - Pages: 9
1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace can be addressed from many ways especially in this new age of technology where the use of Internet, e-mails, voicemails, etc., it has extended to every single aspect on the modern organizations. Employers have found ways to supervise the good doing of its employees monitoring virtually every digital trail leaving employees’ privacy rights in a limbo that is
Words: 1115 - Pages: 5
Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. The given video case describes the private-sector employers’ surveillance activities. In this point, private-sector employers want to make sure that their business assets are not being violated at any time by anyone. Employers have the right to protect their business success, their finances, their buildings, and all of their equipment. There should be no expectations of privacy at any workplace by an employee. New technology
Words: 962 - Pages: 4
should also educate employees on what can be considered “sexual harassment” because it’s not just explicit language and or actions anymore that can be legally defined as such. Number 2, companies can establish guarding of employee information. 5 practices to protect privacy might be: 1. Keeping paper documents containing private information in a secure location. As an example, The Company R2O that I worked for kept all contracts in a locked file cabinet because each file contained the original
Words: 313 - Pages: 2
