Monitoring Employees
Employee Monitoring Discussion
In the United States, employment law is based on a minimal expectation of privacy (Rosser, 2011). This means the interest of the business takes precedence over the employee's right to privacy. If an employee is conducting personal business on the employer's property, or using the employer's property, such as computers, to conduct personal business, the employee's business is not private under law.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities have regulations on managing email and instant messaging. Sarbanes-Oxley Act is another law that regulates how information must be protected (Grey, 2006). HIPAA regulates health companies in how they must protect personal health information, as well as other laws and regulations that govern the protection of sensitive information.
Best practices of employee monitoring involve identification of the risks of concern, careful analysis of monitoring that would help manage those risks,...
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now