Living in an electronic age creates emerging right to privacy issues in the
workplace. As employees use more technology to perform their daily work,
employers are now adopting new methods for electronic surveillance. But do
employers know their limits? Join Council and a leading employment law attorney
for an information-packed hour that will focus on electronic and personal
searches and how employers can find the right balance to ensure its interests
are protected without infringing on their employees' rights to privacy.
The following topics will be addressed:
- Update on recent court decisions defining the scope of employer searches
on their employees
- Examining what official notice requirements employers must provide to
their employees
- Finding the right balance: Employee's right to privacy and employer's
right to searches and surveillance to ensure employee performance and
workplace security
- Clarifying an employer's legal limitations on desk searches, electronic
monitoring, lie detector tests, drug and alcohol testing, and more
- Regulating off-the-job behavior and managing professionalism in the
workplace with grooming standards, smoking bans, and other policies
- Determining how employers can use the information obtained through
searches and electronic monitoring
- Practical tips on staying in compliance with HIPAA's new comprehensive
"enforcement rule" to unify the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and other
existing rules
Moderator:
Susan Fahey Desmond
Shareholder
Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A.
Susan Fahey Desmond is a shareholder in the law firm of Watkins Ludlam Winter
& Stennis. She has been representing management in all areas of labor and
employment law since 1985. She has offices in New Orleans, Louisiana, and
Gulfport, Mississippi.