Under Austria’s coronavirus mass-testing scheme, teachers are to be tested in early January. While nobody can be forced to be tested, those who refuse may have to wear FFP2 coverings while teaching. Read about this issue on The Local (Austria). Under their constitution, they can’t require or mandate the testing, but as a union official…
Category: Workplace
Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
Lauren Kaori Gurley and Joseph Cox report: Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras. Last year, a sales director on the company’s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of colleagues in a Slack channel…
‘Love Contracts’ Go Mainstream as Employers Track Office Romance
Workplace privacy issues have taken center stage in the past year or so. Not only do we have the issues of employers protecting workplace health and safety during the pandemic without violating employees’ privacy in unacceptable ways, but the MeToo! movement that preceded the pandemic was already producing significant shifts in how employers might monitor…
Ireland: Employees Subject to Vehicle Tracking Must Be in the Know
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Due to the importance of data protection law for employee monitoring practices, a careful and considered approach must be taken when potentially highly intrusive methods, such as tracking employee vehicles, are used. Employees must be informed of the existence of tracking and how it operates, as well as being…