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

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

Covertly-Recorded Conversations in the Workplace

By Global Workplace Insider Team on November 5, 2015 Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia

In a startling revelation, it has recently become public knowledge that a Fair Work Commission Vice President had covertly recorded telephone conversations between himself and the President of the Fair Work Commission. The Fair Work Commission is Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal. The Vice President said that he did so to protect his own lawful … Continue reading