Now that the digital age is part of everything we do in our daily lives, employees and their employers need to be more careful than ever about their privacy and how they handle sensitive information that shouldn’t be shared.
As we have discussed before, employers do not have the right to access your information unless it is a labor issue and they do so with your written consent so as not to violate your privacy.
Thanks to the rapid growth of technologies, there are now laws that protect the rights of workers in this area such as the California Consumer Protection Act. This law protects workers and mentions that employers must provide a document with the privacy rights of each new worker who joins the company.
In this document, points such as your right to privacy, to be informed in the event that more private information is required, and the right to request that the personal information held by the company be removed from its system must be established.
On the other hand, there is also a law that protects those employees who are being monitored by their employer as a way of security in the company where the employee must be notified when they will be monitored and for what purposes.
A worker will have the right to decide if his information is shared or not and also the way in which the information that he has already shared with the company is handled. Being reprimanded for refusing to provide private information could be grounds for a claim to your employer.
In case you feel that his security or privacy is violated at work, contact one of our labor law lawyers and find out how he can protect himself or claim if required.
