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The Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy helps employers manage confidential information about their business and their employees. It is a must-read for business owners, managers, and human resource professionals who need to know how privacy law applies within the context of the employer/employee relationship.

The Guide examines workplace issues that are most likely to raise privacy concerns, including:

Employee and applicant tests
Confidentiality and access issues involving employee records
Employee and applicant investigations
Employees' off-duty activities
Employee monitoring and surveillance
Employer's confidential and proprietary information

The Guide discusses privacy law throughout the United States and offers strategies for managing privacy issues. There are numerous, updated state law charts, including charts on alcohol and drug testing, monitoring electronic communications, background checks, and more. The Guide includes revised employer checklists for medical and psychological testing, skills testing, criminal history checks, credit investigations, medical records privacy, and many other topics. There are over a dozen sample policies, including smoking, personal appearance, interpersonal relationships, workplace searches, and more. This 7th Edition of the Employer's Guide to Workplace Privacy includes sections on current, topical issues, including:

New section on the dangers of using Internet search engines to investigate job applicants and employees
Discussion of new "e-discovery" rules requiring employers to have systems in place for accessing and preserving electronic records
Discussion of recent cases on protecting trade secrets and other confidential company information, including a recent ruling that confidentiality policies can violate federal labor relations law
New section on electronic completion and storage of I-9 forms

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