Monitoring Employee Activity - Your Questions Answered

Introduction

The use of electronic gadgets and materials means that there is an increasing opportunity to monitor what employees are doing. This could mean monitoring their email activity, their internet usage, their social media accounts or even monitoring more widely.

Suitable for employment and HR practitioners, this webinar will seek to answer the following questions:

• What can you monitor?
• What does the employee need to know about what you are doing?
• What, if anything, can you monitor covertly?

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Data Protection Legislation
• Data protection
• Human rights
• Other legislation to note
• Monitoring of Communications
• Telephone
• Internet
• Email usage
• Use of Personal Devices
• What can be monitored?
• Issues to think about
• Social Media
• Monitoring of personal social media accounts
• Disciplinary sanctions
• Defining ‘bringing the company into disrepute’
• Wider Monitoring
• Drug and alcohol usage
• CCTV
• When the harasser might also be liable
• Remote Working
• What you can and cannot check
• Communicating with employees
• Taking action if there are concerns

This webinar was recorded on 17th November 2022