Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy

The Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy helps employers manage confidential information about their business and their employees. The Guide examines workplace issues that are most likely to raise privacy concerns, including: employee and applicant tests confidentiality and access issues involving employee records employee and applicant investigations employees' off-duty activities employee monitoring and surveillance employer's confidential and proprietary information the Guide discusses privacy law throughout the United States and offers strategies for managing privacy issues. There are numerous state law charts, including charts on alcohol and drug testing, monitoring electronic communications, background checks, and more. The Guide includes employer checklists for medical testing and recordkeeping, skills testing, criminal history checks, credit investigations, and many other topics. Also, there are over a dozen sample policies, including smoking, personal appearance, interpersonal relationships, workplace searches, and more. The Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy includes sections on current, topical issues, including: security breach notification laws, with strategies for addressing theft or loss of employee information discussion of the USA PATRIOT Act's provisions affecting business records employee Internet use, e-mail, text messaging, and blogging, along with sample policies the Guide is a must-read for business owners, managers, and human resource professionals who have an interest in privacy law within the context of the employer/employee relationship. Updated annually.Greenspan, Amy L. is the author of 'Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780735558977 and ISBN 0735558973.