Is it legal if my employer has installed an audio recording on the security camera but does not want anyone to know this?

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Is it legal if my employer has installed an audio recording on the security camera but does not want anyone to know this?

Also, my employer has given out some personal information about myself to the previous owners in which sexual harrassement charges have been charged on the previous owners husband. Is this legal? Is there a privacy law for employers?

Asked on April 25, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Illinois

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Answered 11 years ago | Contributor

There is nothing illegal with respect to your employer installing an audio recording device on the security camera at work (unless both are in the bathroom). In the bathroom, employees have a justifiable expectation of privacy at the work place but nowhere else under the law.

As to your employer giving out personal information with respect to yourself to the prior owner of the company that you work at concerning the prior owner's husband, assuming such information pertained to work issues, there was nothing improper about the provision of such information.

The above answers help you understand the issues about privacy of an employee in the work place.


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