Week 5 discussion
Topic 1:
Draft a company
policy on use of the internet by employees. Draft it in the form of a memo to
employees.
In your memo discuss
the following issues:
1. What are the general rules?
2. Does “The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
(part of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 18 USC sec. 2510 et
seq.” apply and how specifically?
3. Pick a specific state and discuss how that state handles
the issue of an employer monitoring its employees’ use of company computers,
cell phones and emails?
4. Do employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in,
e.g., an email they might send at work? A website they might visit? How could your policy deal with this?
[Note: Be sure and make a distinction in your memo between
government employees and private employees]
Use a minimum of two
HR/legal references to support your conclusions.
See Discussion Expectations and Grading for rules on
discussion posting days and times. Read background articles. This discussion
requires additional research beyond reading the articles. I have added this
comment from my Discussion Requirements because it appears some of you missed
my requirement that you must submit your intial comments to each discussion
questions by midnight each Thursday for full credit. Also you must
substantively respond to at least two other student comments in this discussion
no later than 10pm Sunday.
Here is one reference to get you started.
https://www.americanbar.org/publications/gp
_solo/2012/november_
december2012privacyandconfidentiality/
what_are_limits_employee_privacy.html
