Rights and Obligations 'Drug use is information that is rightfully private and only in exceptional cases can an employer claim a right to know about such use." I wholly oppose this statement based on moral, as well as practical grounds. This brief c Continue Reading...
Also, employees should be mindful of what they post on social networking sites, even if done from their home computer. Employers should always be aware of what is considered a reasonable expectation of privacy. In certain industries, workplace moni Continue Reading...
Regulating Internet Privacy Privacy regulation has remained pinnacle of issues that got birth with internet. Every innovation in technology is at the expense of privacy; it is no more there as most of technicians believe. A layman using internet doe Continue Reading...
Wiegele indicates that "employers often wish to know whether they are entitled to contact an applicant's references and what obligations they may have in this regard. With respect to obtaining consent to contact such references, it is accepted that Continue Reading...
The first condition of libertarianism is thus fulfilled. Now we come to the second part. If an employer chooses to have his employees tested, he should have made it absolutely clear when hiring them that they would be tested. It was then up to them Continue Reading...
What further makes interpretation of results difficult to precisely define quantify is that the amount of drug stores depends on the nature of the drug itself, the duration of the ingestion of the drug, and the composition of the tissue holding the Continue Reading...
For example in "Bonita P. Bourke, et al. v. Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.," (California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, Case No. B068705, July 26, 1993). The plaintiffs said the company's review of e-mail messages over a company sy Continue Reading...
Social Media/Workplace Conflict Every day, most of us create permanent records of our lives and the things we do through our Internet use, emails, texts, tweets, blogs, and similar technology. Information intended for friends and family can sometime Continue Reading...
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 Continue Reading...
The courts have basically given businesses cart blanc with regard to the monitoring of what their employees say and do in their work email as well as on their work computers, even when they sign in to private web-based email accounts for private tra Continue Reading...
A consistent policy applied to all employees and applicants makes it far less likely that a business will be subject to litigation losses. The old cliche is that "All is fair in love and war," but one might add that this includes the area of busine Continue Reading...
According to the current laws, which are not really up to speed yet, an employer can monitor employee email if he or she has a legitimate business purpose for doing so. There is a belief that, because the employer has an email and computer system f Continue Reading...
The U.S. Supreme Court has given employers "little choice" in the matter, Boyd explains. If a company "can prove" they took "reasonable care" in order to prevent or to correct inappropriate behavior, under the law they have (in many cases) "safe ha Continue Reading...
Technology / Privacy / Workplace There is a rapidly increasing use of technological monitoring in the workplace, and while technology in general has been highly beneficial to companies, the use of some technologies has raised privacy and ethical con Continue Reading...
Electronic Surveillance on-The-Job: The Pros and Cons of Employee Monitoring Modern technology has allowed employers many new capacities, including the capacity to electronically oversee employees every action while on-the-job. In recent years many Continue Reading...
Business Law Is monitoring of employee emails and internet use a violation of a person's constitutional right to privacy? This issue is explored in detail in a journal article by Mcevoy entitled "E-Mail and internet monitoring and the workplace: Do Continue Reading...
Monitoring Employee Communications The workplace is highly complex, and while there is a great deal of emphasis placed on practical aspects such as management of resources and operational strategies, there is less attention paid to ethical issues. Continue Reading...
Ethics in Technology There has been a rapidly increasing use of technology in the workplace, but while some technological advances have benefitted companies, other technologies have raised serious concerns about employee privacy. Consequentialism a Continue Reading...
professional HR standpoint on the Employee Free Choice Act for the consideration of a local U.S. representative. Message to Representative This document contains the professional opinion of highly qualified Human Resource professionals on the prop Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Company Culture in Preventing Workplace Violence: This essay would explore how organizational culture can contribute to or prevent incidents of workplace violence. It would involve an analy Continue Reading...
Economic Motivators for Employers on Employment Rates for People With Disabilities in Atlanta Qualitative Research Quantitative Research Definition of Disability Statistics for Individuals with Disabilities Effects Of ADA On Persons With Disabi Continue Reading...
workplace are job knowledge tests, cognitive ability tests, and personality tests. Job Knowledge Tests Achievement tests or job knowledge tests are composed of questions designed to measure technical or professional expertise in a specific area of Continue Reading...
One hypothesis is that many African-Americans yielded to the intimidation of the time and simply did not want to risk their safety and the safety of their families. 6. Poll Taxes A poll tax is a tax of a fixed amount charged each person to registe Continue Reading...
drivers endure a multitude of work-related health issues due to the nature of their work. They drive consistently long hours. They must be weary of potential accidents, and do not receive high pay. This can lead to a higher than normal employee turn Continue Reading...
drivers endure a multitude of work-related health issues due to the nature of their work. They drive consistently long hours. They must be weary of potential accidents, and do not receive high pay. This can lead to a higher than normal employee turn Continue Reading...
Workplace violence in the United States has become widespread. According to the Department of Labor and Industries, homicide, is the fourth-leading cause of fatal injury. Statistics claim that workplace homicides declined one percent in 2009. Though Continue Reading...
checkyourassignments.org/images/spacer.gif exposure due to liability apart from increased premiums of employees compensation. Employers possess a http://www.checkyourassignments.org/images/spacer.gif self-interest while maintaining a workplace which Continue Reading...
Law and Ethics in the Business Environment RIGHT FROM WRONG Business Ethics and the Law Business law fixes the minimum standards of behavior for businesses (Bramble, 2013). Enforcing these laws generally consists of fines involved in the exercise Continue Reading...
consultation done for a CEO of a Fortune 500 company regarding use of internet by its employees. The consultation will look into internet usage by employees and possible ways to reduce illegal use of internet at the workplace. Torts that the employ Continue Reading...
The initial exchange between Raj and Sally illustrate the importance of sensitizing employees to the delicate nature of even benign social overtures, particularly in connection with coworkers of the opposite gender. Whereas innocent social invitati Continue Reading...
77). Electronic privacy law applies to employment and business records and information management in the workplace, with different rights and regulations depending on the specific communications medium involved. Generally, employee privacy rights to Continue Reading...
Value Digital Privacy Information Technology The Value Digital Privacy in an Information Technology Age National security concerns in society and the continual investing in Internet, telephone, text and e-mail monitoring systems by enterprises are Continue Reading...
Consensual Relationship Agreements Workplace romance or affairs are likely to happen since individuals with general interests are put together for more than 40 hours per week. Based on the findings of a survey, approximately 47% of 1,000 professiona Continue Reading...
Ethics of Employee Location Monitoring In the contemporary workplace, workers are usually aware that their computer activity, email, and phone conversations may be -- and probably are -- being monitored by their employer. Efforts to limit the consu Continue Reading...
Balancing the Right to Know With the Right for Privacy and Records Confidentiality Balancing the right to know with the right of American public for the privacy and confidentiality of their personal information is a challenging enterprise, and it is Continue Reading...
Privacy in the Workplace "Employee Monitoring: Is there Privacy in the Workplace?" 2003. Consumers Action Network Professionally ethical standards dictate that employees should be committed to working and performing at a professional level while in Continue Reading...
While this may seem absurd, on the other hand, careless employees, if not monitored, could actually expose private customer data in a dangerous fashion -- an employee who accesses his work account on his computer through a wireless network in a publ Continue Reading...
employees resist integrating new technologies into workplace duties, and what can be done to prevent employee resistance to technology changes? You know, I'm all for progress. It's change I object to." - Mark Twain The Key Question to be addressed Continue Reading...
journal New Technology, Work, and Employment, discusses the ethical, legal, and cultural issues when it comes to a company using electronic surveillance (ES) in various ways in the workplace. The authors review some cases where companies used very i Continue Reading...
unethical for employees to use Facebook during work hours provided that 1. It does not interfere with their work duties and 2. They are not expressly forbidden from doing so according to company policy. However, the issue is not employers exercising Continue Reading...
