CHAPTER 8
PRIVACY ISSUES
INTRODUCTION
Defining Privacy
Privacy has become an important issue in the modern workplace. However, there is no one overriding and definitive body of law, either statutory or regulatory, that defines what privacy in the workplace actually means or what its boundaries are. What does exist is a complex and confusing set of federal and state laws, state constitutional doctrines, and a variety of (sometimes conflicting) court cases based on tort (civil wrongs) and contract theories.
Making matters even more confusing is that different laws dealing with employment discrimination, defamation, intrusion upon seclusion, occupational safety and health, physical impairments, personal health information, and so forth have different ...
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