analyze a video that addressed the issues of electronic surveillance of employees. I will explain if workers can reasonably get privacy in the workplace, the difference between an open and enclosed office area, if Herman’s need for electronic surveillance is a sufficient reason, how an employee can engage in electronic surveillance, and finally explain to what extent the inclusion of innocent, unaware third parties in such surveillance is legal. In the conclusion I will explain how important these
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Brent Schenkel Roy Basile, J.D LEG 500 October 23, 2011 Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Obviously, employee privacy should not be an issue when it comes to a restroom or a locker room facility. This would invade personal privacy and has been upheld by numerous cases in a court of law. But any other parts of the grounds of the company are considered public areas and can have surveillance monitoring.
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issues that policy is legally binding. For example the employer may communicate that employees may enjoy privacy in certain demarcated areas of the office. The employee can enjoy privacy in those areas. According to Ethics in the workplace from a legal perspective employees can reasonably expect privacy in the bathroom and locker room. In such places video monitoring will not be accepted in a court of law. For instance, employers that wish to have an unquestionable right to look at or search for
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Assignment #1 – Electronic Surveillance of Employees DJhonna M. Jones Legal 500 January 28, 2012 Professor Lisa Armonda, J.D. Abstract: This paper is a look at the Video “Electronic Surveillance of Employees”. It will cover where employees can reasonable expect to have privacy, open and enclosed area effects on employees. It will also cover Mr. Herman’s information needs, employer electronic surveillance of employee’s extent, and unaware third party usage in surveillance.
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees By Rekiea Colbert Dr. Macbeth LEG 500 11/23/11 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy in the workplace has been an ongoing and perhaps a continued effort for all companies in an effort to protect viable information. Employees as well are concerned if employers of having too much control or access to their privacy. The manner in which certain privacy can be reasonably expected lies
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Turrochelle McEachern Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance/ LEG 500 1/23/2011 Professor Eric Baime Electronic Surveillance of Employees Today, technology has increased that it enables us to connect with more people on a broader basis and in quicker ways. Organizations today are faced with the liability of their employees using technology for their own personal gain and thus issues related to workplace privacy. Organizations are coming up with
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Generally, the courts don’t “ally” the employee’s cause when it comes to privacy intrusion in the workplace unless it was unreasonable, “…only if he had an objectively reasonable expectation of seclusion or solitude in the place, conversation or data resources” Shulman 955 P.2d at 469. To be qualified as unreasonable, the intrusion should involve invading another person’s
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workspace, an open area, in which there are several desks and where conversations can be overhead, or an enclosed office, in which, when the door is closed, conversation cannot be heard and where one would expect virtually total privacy. Explain whether it makes a difference if an employee is in an open are or in an enclosed office. It does make a difference if an employee is in their own office space or are in an open area. For example, my manager sits in a closed off and the employees share
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Mitchell D. Upchurch Anthony Robinson Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance- LEG 500 January 17, 2011 Privacy in the Workplace Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy in the workplace can reasonably be expected in three general areas as it relates to the employer, co-workers, clients and customers. When an employee is hired at a new company, there are several security measures that are already
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Dawn Cuffie Professor M. Best Law, Ethics and Corporate Goverance-LEG 500 January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonable expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees are deemed not to have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Employees are expected to follow guidelines and regulations regarding usage of workplace computers, telephones, cell phones, pagers, email and internet. These are often times found in the employee handbook
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