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Workplace Recordings by Employees: Legal or Not?
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30285
Subject(s) - business , subject (documents) , work (physics) , public relations , internet privacy , psychology , computer science , political science , world wide web , engineering , mechanical engineering
Many employees have smartphones that can produce both audio and video recordings. Without a policy on the subject, employees will make surreptitious recordings with their phones, which can be used as evidence against the company in support of unfair labor practice charges. The question is can an employer enforce a policy that prohibits employees from recording conversations at work unless those being recorded consent to the recording?