I'm Robert LaGow of SHRM, and I am the moderator of SHRM's weekly chat series. The fine line between employer rights and employee rights is growing more blurred by the minute. Find out from one of the country's leading workplace privacy experts Lewis Maltby, president of the National Work Rights Institute. Maltby was formerly the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Task Force on Civil Liberties in the Workplace. It's easy for employers to monitor virtually everything we do in the workplace today.
Employers can easily monitor e-mail, listen to voice mail and phone calls.
And, it's all perfectly legal. That's as good a place as any to start our discussion. There's no reason why the employee's boss can't access the x-rated web site like anyone else. But, the employer doesn't have the right to take disciplinary actions unless it's hurting the company somehow. It's hard to imagine what that scenario would be.