A Manager′s Guide to Employee Privacy: Law, Policies, and Procedures - Hardcover

Decker, Kurt H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471509035 ISBN 13: 9780471509035

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1989

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

About the author KURT H. DECKER received his law degree from Vanderbilt University and his Masters of Law degree in labor law from Temple University. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations at Saint Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania, and currently practices law at the firm of Stevens & Lee in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books for legal professionals, Employee Privacy Forms and Procedures and Employee Privacy Law and Practice, as well as numerous articles relating to employment law in professional journals.

• 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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471509035
• ISBN 13: 9780471509035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288