Constitutional Law,
Labor/Employment,
U.S. Supreme Court
Jan. 7, 2010
Privacy in the Workplace
Charles Doskow of the University of La Verne College of Law asks whether the Supreme Court will uphold protection of government employees' privacy rights.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
The right of an employer to read an employee's communications created with an employer-owned computer or pager is a controversial one. Balanced against the employer's right to control its equipment and its workers' time are considerations of personal privacy. The tensions have become emphasized by the increasingly common practice of mixing business and personal time and communications.
The U.S. Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear a case about the right of an employer to read a...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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