Electronic Surveillance of Employees Jorge Munoz Strayer University Week Three Assignment # 1 Law- Ethics and Corporate Governance Professor Eric Baime July 17 of 2011 Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of Employees View the video: “Electronic Surveillance of Employees” by clicking on the link in the course shell. There is also a link that will allow you to print the script of the video. Write a four to five (4-5) page report that answers the following: 1. Explain
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees John Burnett Professor Dorothy Sliben Legal 500 Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Strayer University October --,2011 Introduction I am rather pleased that I was able to successfully complete assignment I, Electronic Surveillance of Employees paper which highlights the overall pros and cons as they relate to the privacy of an organization's most integral commodity, the employee. The work surveillance is closely scrutinized
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Assignment 1: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Strayer University. January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become an extremely important part of American culture. Privacy is freedom from unsanctioned intrusion (American Heritage Dictionary). It is an implied right based on the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution (August, et al., 2001). Employees
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Running Header: Video Assignment Electronic Surveillance of Employees Strayer University Professor Whitney Davis, Esq. LEG 500 22 January 2012 Franchrista M. Rollie Explain Where an Employee Can Reasonably Expect to Have Privacy in the Workplace Employee privacy rights are automatically granted and protected by specific labor laws, regulations and certain rules to follow, especially when it comes to employment. There are laws already in existence in our society to protect that one
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Assignment #1: Electronic Surveillance of Employees In America there is a lack of comprehensive uniform legal standard protecting the privacy of its citizens. The no express “right to privacy” was written into the U.S. Constitution, although the Supreme Court has interpreted the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments as creating certain privacy rights that cannot be violated by the government. Many employees may claim that electronic monitoring amounts to “intrusion” which is a variation on
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balancing test as what the US District Court judge used in the 1996 case of Michael A. Smith v. The Pillsbury Company. The judge ruled in the defendants favor saying that Pillsbury’s “interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity over the email system outweighed any privacy interest the employee may have in those (email) comments”,( Halbert 2011, p.72). In this case, it was more important for Pillsbury to know what communication was
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reason to ensure the productivity of the employees at workplace. An employee should be able to reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace in areas that may be physically invasive such as the bathroom, a private office if the electronic surveillance method being used is wiretapping without prior consent in some states. An employee should not expect to have privacy involving company email systems, phone lines, voicemail, cell phones and pagers, and while using company computers regardless if
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Employers are very interested in the loyalty, productivity, and privacy of the employees. Employers usually include privacy policies in the employee handbook that outlines company guidelines when referring to emails and electronic surveillance. The only place an employee can actually expect to have privacy at work is in the restroom. However, this is only to a certain degree since people come in and out of bathrooms on a regular basis. The only laws that govern privacy are
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the work place. Aside from the more measurable costs, employees emphasize their need to preserve at work what they expect to maintain elsewhere, a sense of dignity and self-respect. Within the workplace typical employees would expect to have minimal. Privacy in this aspect gives individuals, from factory workers to presidents a chance to lay their masks aside. The more employees share space, cubicles and networked computers,
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Assignment #1 Electronic Surveillance of Employees Strayer University Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance –LEG-5000 July 31 2011 1. Explain where an employees can reasonably expect o have privacy in the workplace? Every employee has the right to privacy in the workplace. Privacy in the workplace has become quite big issue. With the rise of continuing of technology and innovations many employers are seeking how far can they go to monitor their employee’s personal cell phone usage, personal
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