Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida

Corporate Surveillance

If an employer is keeping an employee under surveillance and communicate via voice recorder to individuals surrounding the employee; can the employer be held accountable? In addition, can employers be held accountable for accessing internet usage, utility invoices, credit card statements, etc.? The issue I am describing contains many details. However, I have tried to resolve conflict with HR internally to the organization. I have not obtained any resolve. Specifically, in addition to the previous items, I questioned a rejected home loan, unfulfilled relocation wages, accessing my apartment without consent, and annoying phone calls to my HR department. Do you have any legal suggestions for such a consuming process? When would an investigation be warranted?


Asked on 4/26/09, 10:01 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

Re: Corporate Surveillance

An employer is allowed to see what you are doing, even on the internet (accessed by their computer, using their internet connection). You should not be doing personal work or errands on the company computer and there is probably a policy directly addressing this.

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Answered on 5/03/09, 7:26 pm


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