My manager is posting late arrival times on a communications board for all employees to read. Is this legal???
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My manager is posting late arrival times on a communications board for all employees to read. Is this legal???
There is a white board on the wall where the manager will post things that she wants all employees to read and initial after you have read them. She also post our schedules there. I noticed the other day that she had written the time that I had arrived that morning, along with two other latecomers. I felt publically humiliated and shamed. She did this only the one day. She has not written down any more times since then. It is still on the board and every day I come to work I am embarrassed. I have not asked her why she has done this. I wanted to find out if what is happening to me is legal or not??? I surly hope not cause it is a terrible thing
Asked on February 17, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Does this action violate the terms of any applicabale union agreement or employment contract? Does it constitute some form of legally actionable discrimination? If not, then it is legal. A worker does not have any right to privacy regarding the posting of such information. The fact is that in an "at will" work relationship, a company can set the condtitions of employment much as it sees fit. That having been said, possibly such public postings run counter to company policy.
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