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Workplace spying by bosses to be banned
Thursday, 5 May 2005
Tired of your boss reading your email and checking which websites you've visited? That may be about to end as NSW introduces a workplace privacy bill.
"The e-mail is the modern version of the telephone and I think that most employees would reasonably say that their phones shouldn't be tapped at work automatically and I think that should apply to the Internet," Australian Worker's Union secretary Bill Shorten told Channel Nine recently. "I think the NSW government is reasonably trying to strike a balance between the rights of the employee and the rights of the employer."
The laws introduced yesterday will ban unauthorised snooping by bosses. It includes bans on tracking devices, video cameras and email surveillance. They will make it a criminal offence to undertake any covert surveillance unless there is reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing by an employee.
I've noticed employers increasingly undertaking such tracking, regardless of how productive and well respected the employees in question. I've also caught people reading my emails. It's about time we got some level of privacy.
If your employees aren't productive in their jobs, get rid of them. If they are, and aren't engaged in activities that directly affect your business, who cares what personal stuff they're doing at work?
Read the full story in ZDNet.
Paul Knapp (editor@brainbox.com.au)
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