Monitoring Staff in the Workplace

On November 26th, 2014 Greiter Pegger Kofler & Partners hosted a presentation at the Grand Hotel Europa in Innsbruck titled “Monitoring Staff in the Workplace – What an Employer Is and Isn’t Allowed to Do”.

Lawyers Mag. Melanie Gassler-Tischlinger. LL.M. and Dr. Herwig Frei, both specialised in labour law, presented actual individual cases.

For example, an employer isn’t – or generally isn’t – allowed to:

  • frisk employees or search their bags or handbags because they may have stolen something
  • ask employees to open the boot of their cars
  • film employees secretly, i.e. without them being aware of it
  • film employees permanently
  • have employees observed by detectives without specific grounds
  • fit one way glass panes (which can only been seen through from one side) so that employees can be observed
  • install access control systems without the consent of the workers’ council which always show exactly where an employee is at work
  • consistently record and check which employees have surfed which sites on the internet
  • read employees’ personal emails
  • listen to, record or intercept employees’ personal or work phone calls
  • check on employees by calling on them at home
  • tell an employee to take an alcohol test
  • fit video surveillance as protection against theft or for security reasons without the consent of the workers’ council
  • install biometric time recording systems such as fingerprint scanners without the consent of the workers’ council
  • systematically and comprehensively monitor employees on sick leave through other employees or detectives without the consent of the workers’ council
  • install positioning software on field staff’s work cell phone without the consent of the workers’ council, so that they can be located at all times
  • install software to for the total monitoring or an employees’ computer
  • install video cameras in toilets, changing rooms or washrooms

The presentation was very well attended and numerous employers, labour representatives and legal practitioners filled the Grand Hotel Europa’s Baroque Hall.

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Dr. Ivo Greiter, Dr. Paul Meier (President of the Princely Court Liechtenstein), Dr. Oswald Mayr, Dr. Herwig Frei and Mag. Melanie Gassler-Tischlinger, LL.M.

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The full Baroque Hall

 

Einladung Mitarbeiterkontrolle Vortrag Mitarbeiterkontrolle am Arbeitsplatz

Vortrag Mitarbeiterkontrolle am Arbeitsplatz

 

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