A Manager's Guide to Employee Privacy: Law, Policies, and Procedures [Paperback]

Kurt H. Decker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1989 | ISBN-10: 0471509035 | ISBN-13: 978-0471509035 | Edition: 1

The Only Non-"Legalese" Guide Available to Employee Privacy Issues… A Manager’s Guide to Employee Privacy Laws, Policies, and Procedures Here’s a clearly written, easy-to-follow guide for managers that will help you understand the law as it affects your employees’ privacy rights and obligations in the workplace. You’ll find straightforward, balanced guidance on the legal aspects of virtually every privacy issue, including:

• Hiring Procedures: Application forms, interviewing prospective employees, credit checks, arrest records, criminal convictions, fingerprints and photographs, reference checks, skill testing, and immigration requirements
• Employee Records: Maintaining employment and medical records on employees, and determining who has access to them
• Workplace Medical Concerns: Smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, and physical disabilities
• Information Collection and Distribution: Conducting searches, monitoring and surveillance of employee behavior, and rules governing the distribution of literature in the workplace

There is also thorough coverage of long-standing work-related matters, such as jury or witness duty, voting leave, whistle-blowing, sexual harassment, and related issues. Plus, you’ll find information on issues relating to privacy outside the workplace, including employees’ outside employment, conflicts of interest, noncriminal and criminal misconduct, and residency requirements.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book sets forth procedures, policies, and forms for guiding employees, employers, and human resource professionals in the rapidly expanding area of employee privacy issues. Provides an audit procedure for employers to use in evaluating employee privacy needs. Covers specific privacy interests that arise during hiring, in the workplace, and outside the workplace. Examines issues in initial contacts, employment data verification, records, medical concerns, information collection, and even outside the workplace. By the author of Employee Privacy Law and Practice.

From the Inside Flap

For managers, here is a plain-English legal guide to employee privacy issues that presents all relevant information on laws affecting such pressing issues as workplace bans on smoking, sexual harassment on the job, drug testing of workers, and other similar matters. Step by step, A Manager’s Guide to Employee Privacy reviews the body of laws that relate to each area of employee privacy interests and discusses the general principles involved, procedures for implementing rules in the workplace, and policies for applying the procedures. A Manager’s Guide to Employee Privacy also supplies useful coverage of all the various employee privacy interests that may arise during the course of employment, from initial hiring procedures to retirement or termination. This coverage includes:

• Initial employment contracts
• Employment data verification
• Keeping employee records
• Medical concerns

There is also detailed guidance on dealing with information collection, personal workplace concerns, and employee behavior outside the workplace. There is also an audit procedure for employers to use in evaluating their overall employee privacy needs. The material here is synthesized from the general principles of employee privacy set forth more specifically in Kurt H. Decker’s Employee Privacy Law and Practice, which was published by Wiley Law Publications.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (June 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471509035
• ISBN-13: 978-0471509035
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,248,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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