Avoiding Liability for Violating Privacy Rights: Electronic Monitoring and Personal Search Policies that Protect Both Employers and Employees Training Seminar
Avoiding Liability for Violating Privacy Rights: Electronic Monitoring and Personal Search Policies that Protect Both Employers and Employees
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
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