Employee Monitoring: Do employees have the right to a private life at work?

Laura Daniels reviews a recent case on whether monitoring an employee’s personal communications breached his human rights ‘Member states should ensure that an employer’s measures to monitor correspondence and other communications, irrespective of those measures’ extent and duration, are accompanied by sufficient safeguards against abuse.’ The European Court of Human Rights has decided in Barbulescu …
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Workplace Investigations: Fraud focus

Aarti Jagpal considers the legal and practical issues faced by employers investigating allegations of internal fraud ‘As long as the interception has a genuine aim, goes no further than is needed and ultimately balances the rights of the employer against the rights of the worker, it can be justified.’Fraud poses a substantial threat to businesses …
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