Workplace Surveillance Cases

An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service; to amend the law relating to building regulations.

The Act, when first introduced, provided an integrated system dealing with workplace health and safety and the protection of the public from work activities. By placing general duties upon employees,employers,the self-employed,manufacturers,designers and importers of work equipment and materials, the protection of the

The Act also requires employees not to interfere with or misuse anything provided to protect their health, safety or welfare in compliance with the Act.

Workplace privacy is one of the biggest issues facing businesses today. Do you feel like you are being watched all the time, all your e-mails being read, and every key stroke is being monitored by your boss? Some people feel this way and that is why privacy in the workplace is a problem with many businesses today. Employees feel like they are not being trusted, or feel the company invades on their personal privacy, or violates their fourth amendment rights. On the other hand many businesses have many federal and state laws to follow, and must keep their assets safe, and their employees. Technology makes communications of all sorts as easy as a few pushes of a button. This technology makes it

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974- This act is to protect the employees from any danger or risks, it’s the employers duty to see this threw in the

However, the camera recorded and stored videos and images for thirty days. Therefore, since it’s unclear whether the video was viewed or not, there is a possibility that the video might have been viewed and probably copied to a flash disk. Additionally, if indeed the video was not viewed, then what was the purpose of installing the video cameras in the office? The teachers had the right to privacy and should be protected from unnecessary invasion of their privacy. The gym teachers used the office to change their clothes before and after gym sessions because the office was private (at least they thought so). Nevertheless, with the installation of the cameras without their consent, their privacy was

On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, a neighborhood watch coordinator, George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old teenager named Trayvon Martin. Some say Zimmerman acted rightfully in self-defense while others believe he acted wrongfully by racially profiling Martin during the incident. Similarly, on August 9, 2015, an 18-year-old teenager named Michael Brown was fatally shot to death by police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Some witnesses believe that Brown was unarmed during this unfortunate incident and that he was holding his hands up in order to surrender to Wilson. Unfortunately, society may never know what actually happened since witnesses, proof, and evidence were very limited during that time of the events. Incidents like these may never have to happen again if law enforcement wore body cameras during their shifts. Body-worn cameras are a video recorder mainly used by police and law enforcement to record interactions with the public, evidence at crime scenes while still improving officer and citizen accountability. Due to the recent rise in news following innocent people being unjustly shot by law enforcement, the idea of wearing body cameras are starting to look like a great idea. Body worn cameras seem like a great asset to utilize for every police officer out there however there are some faults to it as well like some security, ethical, and social issues.

The case being heard today is about the government surveillance of Muslims in New York city and New Jersey. In 2012, the Associated Press, published a series of stories that revealed the existence of a secret surveillance program implemented by the New York City Police Department, also known as the NYPD. The purpose of this program was to surveill and monitor the Muslim American communities in New York and New Jersey since the year 2002. According to the Associated Press, surveillance of these Muslim Communities took place in a variety of settings including: Muslim-owned businesses, muslim college organizations, and mosques to name a few. In the Associated Press’s coverage of this program, they divulged document after document acknowledging the existence of its program as well as its purpose of the program; however, the leaked documents by the Associated Press were unredacted. This alerted the general public to names of various individuals as well as organizations and business that were being surveilled by the NYPD.

The purpose is to make sure people are not hurt or injured as a result of work or work related activities. Also, it encourages the standardise management of health and safety at work by employers to cooperate with employees to establish better systems in the workplaces. It is very important that all hazards in the workplaces are found, and eliminate if possible. If not, isolate or minimise the risk and notify the employees. The act describes the duties of employers and it covers all employees, self-employed people, and including trainees, and

This act is the main Act in health and safety law in the UK. It covers all workplaces, it affects the employers and employees and it is used to control the safeness and the health of others within a workplace. This act determines duties to the person in control of the premises, the employees and the employers.

This policy, as obliged by the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW), deals with the three key forms of surveillance. Surveillance in this context can be defined as the close observation of employees in the work; which may constitute in any of

Constitutional Rights are afforded to every American Citizen by the first ten amendments to the Constitution or more commonly known as The Bill of Rights. The fourth amendment of The Bill of Rights applies to all and states, "the right of the people to be secure in their persons" (para.4). When a person accepts a position anywhere, whether at a small family owned grocery store or a major corporation, one does so with the understanding that some inalienable rights will be given up. This paper examines if an employer can crush those rights by using lie detector tests, monitor employee phone calls and emails; use surveillance cameras, and issue random drug-testing.

The article, goes on to explain in a union environment “surveillance” is “considered possible coercion” (Petereson & Boller, 2005, p. 56). Additionally, the authors go on to explain that “The NLRB has long held that photographing employees engaged in protected activities violates the Act as it tends to intimidate them. On the other hand, if “mere observation” of open, public activity, on or near the employer’s property, is not a violation of the Act. Employers are also permitted to photograph (or engage in surveillance) if there is a reasonable anticipation of employee misconduct” (Petereson & Boller, 2005, p. 57). In this case study the primary reason for the camera being placed in the office was to catch the teacher stealing the student’s money. Which could be considered a poor decision because the camera would have to catch the teacher removing the money from the students clothing or bill fold to validate if the money came from the students. Furthermore the students would have to have a credible count on their money and know exactly when it was stolen during the day to correlate the theft to the teacher in his office off of the camera’s time

Workplace surveillance has become a controversial issue in the workplace environment. The technological surveillance has developed as a necessity, it doesn’t only help in monitoring what the workers’ do, but it also helps to know how they do it. The modern technological development may have helped the employers’ to have an aerial view of the workplace environment, but it has created a controversy between the employees’ and the employer about the employees’ right to privacy being violated. The employees’ believe the act of workplace surveillance to be hateful that violates their right to privacy and liberties. The surveillance at the workplace often effects workers mental health, productivity, future success in their work and their relationship with the employer, despite being a necessity for the employers’ to protect themselves against the liability, many employers’ in the process of achieving efficiency through surveillance mistakenly ruin their relationship with their employees. The workplace surveillance is helpful in improving the performance of workers or it is contributing towards degrading the performance of workers and their work relationships.

Workplace monitoring has been a point of discussion within businesses as Human Resource Management feels that there is a need to watch their employees and how they conduct themselves at all times during the work day. Unless a government employee, employees are subject to any monitoring the employer