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Monitoring and Management Tech is on the NLRB’s Radar

By Kevin MacNeill on November 7, 2022 Posted in United States

On October 31, 2022 the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board released a memo urging the Board to adopt a “new framework” for protecting employees from “intrusive or abusive” forms of electronic monitoring and automated management technologies that interfere with employee rights to self-organize and to engage in collective bargaining under Section 7 … Continue reading

Covert monitoring in the workplace – impact on an employee’s privacy

By Amanda Sanders (UK) on November 5, 2019 Posted in Data privacy and GDPR, Europe, UK

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has held that Spanish shop workers’ right to privacy under Article 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights was not violated when their employer obtained evidence of theft from covert CCTV footage of the employees. The case involved five employees who worked as … Continue reading