It is not uncommon for employers to monitor and record the telephone conversations of an employee, read e-mails and correspondence addressed to the employee at work and monitor an employee’s actions using closed circuit television equipment.
Employees might feel that such actions amount to invasion of privacy, but there could be good reasons why an employer might want the right to take such actions. The Human Rights Act 1998, which comes into effect on 2 October, will affect the extent to which employers, particularly those in the public sector, can lawfully subject employees to such treatment.
