Employers are increasingly confronted with issues involving company laptops, mobile phones, WhatsApp messages, cloud storage, and employees’ personal devices used for work.
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Employee Privacy: What are the rights of the employer?
In October 2017 we posted a series of articles about employee privacy as it relates to the use of employee information by the employer. This article focuses on where do employees' rights to privacy...
PART 2: Employee privacy: What are the rights of an employer?
In PART 1 we briefly referred to the use of employee information by an employer and when it would be a breach of employee privacy in terms of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act No. 4...
PART 1: Employee privacy: What are the rights of an employer?
Where do employees' rights to privacy end and the employer's right to protect its business begin? What if the employer needs to protect its company from employee theft? Or have to protect it from...
Reading employee emails
It is clear that an employee's privacy is important. The law prohibits uncontrolled access to an employee's private communications. However, it does provide the employer with some rights of access...
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