LEGAL BRIEFS: Workplace Privacy - Does It Really Exist?

This program teaches four main areas managers need to pay attention to when dealing with workplace privacy issues:

• Managing Expectations.
• Obtaining Employee Consent.
• Protecting Confidentiality of Employee Records.
• Protecting Confidentiality in an Investigation.

Key Learning Points:

• The employee's privacy rights.
• The employer's rights to protect property, information, and security.
• How to establish, document, communicate, and enforce an organization's employment policies.
• Four main issues regarding privacy issues in the workplace.
• Three action steps that managers can take to keep themselves and their organizations out of court.

About the Program:

This program provides answers to several of the most common questions managers struggle with concerning workplace privacy, including:

• Are individuals guaranteed the same rights to privacy within the workplace that they are entitled to at home?
• Should employees sign a consent form prior to any employer searches?
• Do I keep all records pertaining to an employee together, centralized in one location?
• After an investigation, should a full report of the incident be shared with the entire management team?

Package Includes:

15-18 minute video, Facilitator Guide, and Participant's Desk Reference

The Complete Employment Law Package includes:

1: Legal Briefs: The Americans With Disabilities Act
2: Legal Briefs: Recruiting & Hiring
3: Legal Briefs: Harassment & Discrimination
4: Legal Briefs: Discipline & Termination
5: Legal Briefs: The Family and Medical Leave Act
6: Legal Briefs: Workplace Violence: A Legal Role
7: Legal Briefs: Substance Abuse
8: Legal Briefs: Workplace Privacy

The Legal Briefs Series is The most unique, practical, easy-to-use, employment law training available today. Why? Instead of The usual mind-numbing "legal speak" and "information dump", each title focuses on a specific law, identifies The most common issues and potholes managers and organizations face-and presents easily understood, legally accurate answers and actions your managers can implement immediately.

Key Learning Points:

• Harassment and discrimination hurt everyone
• Which behaviors now contribute to a hostile work environment
• The areas in which people and organizations cannot discriminate
• When harassment can become discrimination, or "tangible employment action" and The implications of those

Using dramatic examples in white and blue collar, hospitality, health care, and retail settings, this video will protect your organization by communicating everyone's legal responsibilities and is for training on diversity as well.

Format: Video
Length: 14 mins.
Additional Materials:
Facilitator Guide
Reproducible Participant Handouts
Reproducible Self-Study Workbook