Employee Privacy Policy: Workplace and Legal Considerations

This report examines employee privacy policies, focusing on the protection of employee information within an organization. It outlines the importance of safeguarding personal data, including resumes, interview notes, and payroll information. The report references the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, which protects employees' electronic communications from unauthorized monitoring. It also discusses the legal landscape in Florida regarding private employers' access to employee information and the restrictions on surveillance. Furthermore, it highlights the distinction between public and private sector employees concerning privacy rights, particularly regarding the use of private communication devices in a professional context and the potential for public record searches. The report emphasizes the need for employees to maintain privacy while acknowledging the necessity for some level of information access to protect public records and ensure responsible data handling.

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Running Head: Employee Privacy Policy
Memorandum
To: The employees
From: HR Department
Date: xx June 20xx
Subject: Employee Privacy Policy
As an organization, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of each employee.
For this purpose, we identify personal information as any information that relates to an
individual. We only collect the information present in the resumes, interview notes,
photographs, payroll information and urgent contact information.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 enforces upon the privacy rights
of the employees. It protects their electronic communication to be monitored or
recorded. It identified electronic communication as the transfer of information over an
electronic source. This law also limits the access of employers to the electronic
information that has pooled over time.
In Florida private employers are forbidden to check the private vehicles for any reason
whatsoever. It also protects them from various kinds of computer surveillance and
criminalizes video voyeurism.
It is expected that the employees will be able to retain their privacy. In order to
safeguard the public records and ensure they are not being misused, private
belonging of employees need to be checked (Dalal & Gorab, 2016). In order to retain
their privacy, it is advised that private information devices should not be used in a
public arena.
Government sector employees have more protection against unfair means of
information acquired by the employers. Public employers cannot force their
employees to make statements that will be used against them or in favor of their
company (Maestas et al. 2017). However, a public employee using a private
communication device in the professional field is at the stake of being searched to
ensure there is no public record information on the device.

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Employee Privacy Policy
References
Dalal, R. S., & Gorab, A. K. (2016). Insider threat in cyber security: what the
organizational psychology literature on counterproductive work behavior can and
cannot (yet) tell us. In Psychosocial Dynamics of Cyber Security (pp. 122-140).
Abingdon: Routledge.
Maestas, N., Mullen, K. J., Powell, D., von Wachter, T., & Wenger, J. B. (2017). How
Americans Perceive the Workplace.