Evan Granowitz: Preventing an invasion of privacy employee lawsuit

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Atty. Evan W. Granowitz knows that it is really difficult to be an employer. Employers need to strike a balance between protecting company assets and resources and not making employers feel that they are not trusted. Ensuring that their employees are doing their work and are working at an efficient level is important. Because of this, more employers have been keeping an eye on their workers through the use of modern technology.

Some employers perform routine checks of their employees’ lockers and workstations, do physical exams and substance abuse tests, and sometimes even monitor out-of-work activities. If these employees get reprimanded or fired based on information gleaned through any of these techniques and they discover that their privacy had been violated in the process, they have the right to sue their employers.

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Atty. Evan W. Granowitz is an expert civil litigator who also specializes in business torts and unfair competition disputes.

Here are some ways that employers can do to avoid this:

• Employers should establish a policy regarding the proper use of office resources and publish it in the employee manual.
• Although it is given that employers have the right to monitor e-mail use, publishing their employees’ private messages violates employee public rights.
• Employers should perform drug tests for legitimate reasons and at appropriate times only.
• Employers should indicate their right to do searches in the employee manual and perform these searchers only for business or legal reasons.

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