Privacy: Understand the legal pitfalls of monitoring remote employees

Keystone Law | October 2022 #234
Rachel Tozer looks at the issues employers need to work through to help them decide whether electronic staff surveillance is justified An employer needs to be careful about treating one group of employees (such as remote workers) differently to another group (such as office-based workers). Recent reports that the Cabinet Office hopes to persuade civil …

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Secondary employment: What to do if an employee is working another job

Lime Solicitors | February 2022 #227
Neha Thethi discusses the legal and practical issues to consider when an employee is working two jobs If an employer discovers that a member of staff is doing a second job, it should check their contract of employment before taking any action. Since the start of the pandemic, growing numbers of employees have seen an …

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Employee monitoring: CCTV recording at work – principles and pitfalls

Doyle Clayton | September 2021 #223
Mike Hibberd warns that it is no easy matter to act on evidence of misconduct or poor performance obtained through electronic surveillance CCTV systems must always be used for a specified purpose to further a legitimate aim and their use must be necessary for meeting an identified pressing need. Employee monitoring is always a hot …

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