Vetting and Monitoring Employees: A Guide for HR Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780815398875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Gillian Howard

Opis

Most employers will at some time need to monitor, record and read e-mails sent and received by their staff, or check on their employees' use of the telephone and internet. This book gives guidance in this difficult area of employment law with practical advice, precedents and policies, and details of legal interpretations of the law by the Courts and Employment Tribunals.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The law on monitoring telephone calls and emails and internet regulation; Monitoring telephone calls; Discipline and dismissing employees; Harassment, diversity and pornography; Covert surveillance and Data Protection; Data Protection and Freedom of Information; Human rights and monitoring employees; Pre-employment checks and references; Defamation and the internet; Email and internet policies and procedures; Appendices: Policy documents; Index.

O autorze

Gillian Howard is an employment lawyer, specialising in employment law, personal injury and medical negligence. She has both corporate and individual clients and has a wide-ranging practice in both contentious and non-contentious work. She represents clients at tribunals as well as advising and drafting on company policies and procedures. She is author of many publications, including Tolley's Drafting Contracts of Employment and Fitness for Work - Medical Aspects, published by Oxford University Press. She regularly writes articles in HR and medical journals. She appears on the TV and radio on employment law issues. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Occupational Medicine at the University of Birmingham.