Employee Surveillance
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Employee surveillance by Answers Investigation takes the form of physical surveillance, monitoring email's, logging internet activity and monitoring telephone call's all our practices protect the employer against breach of acceptable use.
When we carry out employee surveillance we ensure that we do not breach any rules related to the data protection act . Lawful business practice regulations we are allowed to carry out surveillance in your place of work as long as no rules are broken that concern employment practices data protection law.
We can physically monitor or carry out surveillance on employees using covert cameras. You need to be able to justify the use of camera's when monitoring employee's covertly and you can do this by having a genuine suspicion that there are offences being committed in your workplace. Once the surveillance has finished all the camera's must be removed to avoid any legal proceedings against yourself.
Other ways of carrying out employee surveillance include monitoring using video camera's people feel that this is very intrusive so the Government has come up with some stipulations and these include telling employees the location of your cameras and the areas that they can monitor and you should only locate cameras where the privacy of the area is expected to be low, private areas must not be monitored.
As the employer you have the duty of providing your employees with a policy that details the use of all electronic systems and what is deemed to be acceptable and what is not so if an employee uses emails or internet access for something that is not correct then you have proof that you stipulated it was not allowed.
Employees have the right to know why the workplace is under surveillance and when and where all cameras will be placed and what if any information that is collected what it will be used for. If the surveillance is to monitor how people are performing in order to increase work standards then they must be informed as to what standard is expected of them.