Can employer force employees to provide a daily journal?
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Can employer force employees to provide a daily journal?
An employer has required all employees to take a strengths assessment. Now they are requiring the employees to maintain a journal describing their daily activities while not at work, and provide this to the employer. Can they force the employees to take the strengths assessment and/or write a journal detailing their private lives and activities while not at work?
Asked on April 22, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, Texas
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
Yes, you can be made to keep such a journal unless doing so violates the terms of an employment contract or union agreement. The fact is that a company can set the conditions of employment much as it sees fit (absent some form of legally actionable discrimination). That having been said, if you are paid hourly then you are entitled to be compensater for any time that you spend writing in this journal on your time off.
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
Yes, you can be made to keep such a journal unless doing so violates the terms of an employment contract or union agreement. The fact is that a company can set the conditions of employment much as it sees fit (absent some form of legally actionable discrimination). That having been said, if you are paid hourly then you are entitled to be compensater for any time that you spend writing in this journal on your time off.
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